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The Netherlands, Holland, Delft
Jar (17th century)
earthenware
32.2 × 27.2 cm diameter
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1939
Photo: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
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Jar
(17th century)
Medium
earthenware
Measurements
32.2 × 27.2 cm diameter
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1939
Gallery location
17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
The decoration of this blue-and-white delftware jar is inspired by mid seventeenth–century Chinese porcelain. A rolling landscape inhabited by robed figures is broken on either side by rocky crags, with areas left white to represent mist. The decoration is not, however, a direct copy of a Chinese original; the Dutch artist has absorbed the Chinese style and produced an original, European composition. The relationship between Dutch ceramics and any Asian prototype is further complicated by the fact that many of these Dutch earthenware imitations of Chinese-style blue-and-white porcelain are not based directly on Chinese models, but on Japanese copies of Chinese porcelains.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Delft, Holland, the Netherlands
Inscription
painted in blue on base c.: 1010 (horizontal line above and below 101)
Accession Number
4550-D3
Department
International Decorative Arts
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