Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1700-1750 (circa)
Materials:porcelain, blanc de chine,
Technique:
Subjects:dog european
Dimensions:Height: 16.50 centimetres Weight: 884 grammes Width: 15.50 centimetres Depth: 7.50 centimetres
Description:
‘Dehua’ sculpture of a European family. This sculpted group shows a European gentleman wearing a tricorne hat, buttoned frock coat and knee breeches and a lady in a tall headdress and long dress. They are seated beside a Chinese chair on which a bowl of bread is placed, holding small cups, and are flanked by a similarly dressed boy and girl with a pet dog, pet monkey and a flower pot in front of them.
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![图片[1]-figure BM-1980-0728.666-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_01008516_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-figure BM-1980-0728.666-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00291883_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:Various attempts have been made to identify the figures, which may have been modelled after an engraving, but were probably intended simply as an archetypal representation of a foreign family. Such models of ‘Dutch families’ were already listed in cargo sale lists of the English East India Company dating from 1701 (Godden, 1979, pp.266, 270). Such figural groups are not uncommon but, being hand-finished, they vary in detail. Similar pieces are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Beurdeley and Raindre, 1987, pl.334); in the Mottahedeh collection (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I, pl.55); and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (no. C.108-1963). They were sometimes cold-painted in the West (see Godden, 1979, pl.193).
Materials:porcelain, blanc de chine,
Technique:
Subjects:dog european
Dimensions:Height: 16.50 centimetres Weight: 884 grammes Width: 15.50 centimetres Depth: 7.50 centimetres
Description:
‘Dehua’ sculpture of a European family. This sculpted group shows a European gentleman wearing a tricorne hat, buttoned frock coat and knee breeches and a lady in a tall headdress and long dress. They are seated beside a Chinese chair on which a bowl of bread is placed, holding small cups, and are flanked by a similarly dressed boy and girl with a pet dog, pet monkey and a flower pot in front of them.
IMG
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:Various attempts have been made to identify the figures, which may have been modelled after an engraving, but were probably intended simply as an archetypal representation of a foreign family. Such models of ‘Dutch families’ were already listed in cargo sale lists of the English East India Company dating from 1701 (Godden, 1979, pp.266, 270). Such figural groups are not uncommon but, being hand-finished, they vary in detail. Similar pieces are in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (Beurdeley and Raindre, 1987, pl.334); in the Mottahedeh collection (Howard and Ayers, 1978, vol. I, pl.55); and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (no. C.108-1963). They were sometimes cold-painted in the West (see Godden, 1979, pl.193).
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