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Charger
c. 1750
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This plate demonstrates the commercial exchange of products—in this case prints and porcelain—between Europe and Asia in the 1700s. Here, a Chinese porcelain factory adapted a French print to decorate a dish for the European market. It depicts a fable by Jean de La Fontaine in which a barrel-maker’s wife dallies with a lover while her husband is working.
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Details
- Title: Charger
- Date Created: c. 1750
- Physical Dimensions: Diameter: 36.3 cm (14 5/16 in.)
- Provenance: Robert H. Gries; (Parke-Bernet, 10 April 1970, lot 175).
- Type: Ceramic
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1970.48
- Medium: porcelain
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Culture: China, Chinese Export, 18th century
- Credit Line: Gift of the Lucile and Robert H. Gries Charity Fund
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Accession Number: 1970.48
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