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Jar
(17th century)
- Medium
- earthenware
- Measurements
- 32.2 × 27.2 cm diameter
- 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
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1939
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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The decoration on this jar is inspired by the Chinese Transitional style. It features a rocky landscape inhabited by robed figures, broken on either side by rocky crags and with areas left white to represent mist. The decoration is not a direct copy of an Asian original but a European scheme incorporating elements of the Chinese style. The relationship between this Dutch ceramic and any Asian prototype is further complicated by the fact that the decoration on many Dutch earthenware vessels is now believed to be based upon Japanese copies of Chinese Transitional porcelains.
