Potiche vase

unknown1644/1911

Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia, Italy

"Potiche" vase with an ovoid body, flat base and cylindrical neck with a slightly subversive rim, richly decorated with an airy allegorical composition with symbols of beauty and good fortune: it can be interpreted as a symbolic wish for a dazzling career, wealth and honours.

Pansa Collection

Details

Title: Potiche vase
Creator: unknown
Date: 1644/1911
Location: Musei Civici di Reggio Emilia
Photographer: Carlo Vannini
Period: Qing dinasty : beginning of XIX century a.D.
Provenance: China, probably from Jingdezhen furnaces, Jiangxi province
Type: Etnic handmade
Medium: Porcelain with polychrome enamels in the palette of the 'famille rose'.

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