- Medium
- porcelain (bone china)
- Accession Number
- 2012.165
- Department
- International Decorative Arts
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The Robert Wilson Collection. Gift of Dr Robert Wilson, 2012 - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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The decoration on this match pot was designed by Christopher Dresser, one of the most innovative British ornamental designers and theorists of the nineteenth century. The decoration shows the direct influence in both motif and colour palette of nineteenth-century Chinese embroidered textiles. Despite this greater fidelity to a genuine Chinese design source, the application of these motifs onto a European ceramic form is a wholly European conceit.