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Tankard
(1625-1650)
- Medium
- porcelain (hard-paste), silver-gilt
- Measurements
- 21.3 × 13.7 × 9.7 cm
- Inscription
- incised in inside of hinge c.: IIIV
- Accession Number
- 4268-D3
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Howard Spensley, 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
- 17th Century & Flemish Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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Chinese porcelains were valued highly in Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries due to their relative rarity. European craftsmen created mounts for imported porcelains in silver and gold, emphasising their great value, and also transforming the function of the porcelain vessels. This tankard of Chinese porcelain is decorated in the late Ming Transitional style. It was fitted with silver-gilt mounts in Antwerp in the mid seventeenth century. The form of the tankard originates in Europe, not China, demonstrating that already in the late Ming period the Chinese porcelain industry was producing wares designed specifically for the European market.
- Physical description
- Chinese porcelain.
