Porcelain plate with The Coup de Lance by Rubens

A Chinese painter from the porcelain town of Jingdezhen has placed Rubens’ print after his altarpiece The Coup de Lance in a colourful scene. ‘Jesuit porcelain’ of this kind was very popular in Europe at that time. This example illustrates that Rubensian imagery was very quickly reproduced in the so-called ‘applied arts’. A similar plate is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.