Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1735-1740 (circa)
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Dimensions:Diameter: 11.70 centimetres (saucer) Height: 3.80 centimetres (cup)
Description:
Purple-and-yellow painted teacup and saucer with a European palmette design. This tea cup and saucer are unusual both in their colour scheme and in their purely ornamental design of purple palmettes with white edges on a canary-yellow diaper ground with a rim border of purple tasseled lappets.
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![图片[1]-tea-cup; saucer BM-Franks.588.a-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00358597_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-tea-cup; saucer BM-Franks.588.a-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/Ceramics/mid_00301061_001.jpg)
Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:This abstract design, known as ‘The Violet Plume’, has clearly a European origin, and relates stylistically to supporting designs on a Chinese export service, which may have been designed by the Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759). The motif of a palmette or scallop shell is used as a border on the ‘Arbour’ service, a coffeepot of which is in the Musee Guimet, Paris, France (Taipei, 1992, p. 95). There is also a similarity in the execution of the grille-like diaper work to other designs attributed to Pronk, for example, a blue-and-white covered milk jug with the ‘Four Doctors’ design in the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands (Jorg, 1980, no. 43). For all these pieces, however, the attribution to Pronk cannot be confirmed through the records of the Dutch East India Company and the design elements on the present cup and saucer were not uncommon in the decorative arts of 18th-century Europe. Many other pieces with this design are known, all apparently from tea and coffee services, for example a teapoy, plate, covered jug, pattipan, two tea cups and saucers in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Le Corbeiller, 1974, no. 25); a coffee cup in the China Trade Museum, Milton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Milton, 1982, no. 63); a teapot, tea cup and saucer in the Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium (Hong Kong, 1989, no. 53); a tea cup and saucer in the Mottahedeh collection (Howard and Ayers, 1979, vol. I , no. 296); and a covered jug, plate, tea cup and saucer are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.This particular design was also made in a different colour scheme with red palmettes against a black-and-white diaper ground with a red tasseled lappet border; a covered jug of this service is in the Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels (Taipei, 1992, p. 94).
Materials:porcelain
Technique:glazed, painted,
Dimensions:Diameter: 11.70 centimetres (saucer) Height: 3.80 centimetres (cup)
Description:
Purple-and-yellow painted teacup and saucer with a European palmette design. This tea cup and saucer are unusual both in their colour scheme and in their purely ornamental design of purple palmettes with white edges on a canary-yellow diaper ground with a rim border of purple tasseled lappets.
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Comments:Harrison-Hall and Krahl 1994:This abstract design, known as ‘The Violet Plume’, has clearly a European origin, and relates stylistically to supporting designs on a Chinese export service, which may have been designed by the Dutch artist Cornelis Pronk (1691-1759). The motif of a palmette or scallop shell is used as a border on the ‘Arbour’ service, a coffeepot of which is in the Musee Guimet, Paris, France (Taipei, 1992, p. 95). There is also a similarity in the execution of the grille-like diaper work to other designs attributed to Pronk, for example, a blue-and-white covered milk jug with the ‘Four Doctors’ design in the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands (Jorg, 1980, no. 43). For all these pieces, however, the attribution to Pronk cannot be confirmed through the records of the Dutch East India Company and the design elements on the present cup and saucer were not uncommon in the decorative arts of 18th-century Europe. Many other pieces with this design are known, all apparently from tea and coffee services, for example a teapoy, plate, covered jug, pattipan, two tea cups and saucers in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Le Corbeiller, 1974, no. 25); a coffee cup in the China Trade Museum, Milton, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (Milton, 1982, no. 63); a teapot, tea cup and saucer in the Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, Belgium (Hong Kong, 1989, no. 53); a tea cup and saucer in the Mottahedeh collection (Howard and Ayers, 1979, vol. I , no. 296); and a covered jug, plate, tea cup and saucer are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.This particular design was also made in a different colour scheme with red palmettes against a black-and-white diaper ground with a red tasseled lappet border; a covered jug of this service is in the Musees Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels (Taipei, 1992, p. 94).
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