Description
Plate of the East India Company, 19th century. Enamelled porcelain. Measurements: 34 cm (diameter). Objects of Chinese origin, such as porcelain, have been known in the West since ancient times. As some of the Prado Museum's catalogues state: "Chinese manufacturers soon realised that Europeans were not experts in porcelain and they made export porcelain, vulgar, even flawed, but which in the eyes of Westerners were authentic works of art. Once the trade was regularly organised, the India Companies supplied Chinese artists with European models, both for forms and decoration. Throughout the 18th century, the blue-and-white series persisted, but of inferior quality, which was then called Nanjing porcelain, and especially the "familie rose" type.
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Plate of the East India Company, 19th century. Enamelled porcelain. Measurements: 34 cm (diameter). Objects of Chinese origin, such as porcelain, have been known in the West since ancient times. As some of the Prado Museum's catalogues state: "Chinese manufacturers soon realised that Europeans were not experts in porcelain and they made export porcelain, vulgar, even flawed, but which in the eyes of Westerners were authentic works of art. Once the trade was regularly organised, the India Companies supplied Chinese artists with European models, both for forms and decoration. Throughout the 18th century, the blue-and-white series persisted, but of inferior quality, which was then called Nanjing porcelain, and especially the "familie rose" type.
