Chinoiserie plate with four figures in a landscape / Artist Unknown, Netherlands
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- Accession Number
- 1969/2.93
- Title
- Chinoiserie plate with four figures in a landscape
- Artist
- Artist Unknown, Netherlands
- Artist Nationality
- Dutch
- Medium and Support
- tin-glazed earthenware (delftware)
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1660
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Netherlands (nation)
- South Holland (province)
- Delft (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Netherlands (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- South Holland (province)
- Creation Place 4
- Delft (inhabited place)
- Credit Line
- The Paul Leroy Grigaut Memorial Collection
- Style/Group/Movement
- Chinoiserie
- Period
- Europe, Baroque (1590-1750)
- Dimensions
- 5.4 cm x 35 cm x 35 cm (2 1/8 in. x 13 3/4 in. x 13 3/4 in.)
- Century
- 17th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- plate
- Physical Description
- Four men sit under a canopied arch in a Chinese-style landscape with pine trees and a river in the well of this blue-and-white plate. The figure seated under the center of the arch holds an object on his lap, which the leftmost figure leans forward to inspect more closely. The old man who sits at the right of the group looks off to his right. The paneled border of the rim is decorated with four reserves featuring the figure of a seated Chinese man. The reserves are separated by a pair of narrow panels flanking a larger central panel. The narrow panels contain a stylized flower motif, while the larger panels are decorated with more elaborate floral designs.
- Subject Matter
- This Chinoiserie plate, made in the Dutch city of Delft in imitation of imported Chinese porcelain, depictsfour men sitting in a landscape. a stylized scene that evokes traditional Chinese images of scholars conversing in a natural setting. The figure seated under the arch holds an object in his lap that the leftmost figure leans forward to inspect more closely, while the man on the right looks away into the distance. The fourth figure, with his hands tucked into his sleeves, may represent a servant, although the artist who painted this plate was primarily concerned with imitating decorative effects, and was probably unaware of the differentiation of status made through careful distinctions of gesture and dress in Chinese painting.
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 825 x 819
- File Size
- 85 KB
- Record
- 1969/2.93
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