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Plate
(c. 1750)
- Medium
- earthenware (tin-glaze)
- Measurements
- 4.2 × 40.7 × 40.4 cm
- Accession Number
- D14-1972
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Cyril Humphris, 1972
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
- 17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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The form of this large earthenware plate is inspired by a European silverware shape. The delightful painted decoration, like the eccentric rock in the foreground, draws inspiration from motifs found on imported Asian ceramics, but combines these with European imagery, including Rococo scrollwork employed architecturally in the fence in the middle ground, to create a fantasy landscape.
- Physical description
- Tin glaze, opaque white glaze painted with 'Chinoiserie' landscape in green, blue, yellow and red.