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Dish
Three Porcelain Bottles factory - Enlarge image
Dish
- Place of origin:
Delft, Holland (made)
- Date:
1691-1724 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Three Porcelain Bottles factory (attributed to, maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Tin-glazed earthenware with painted decoration
- Credit Line:
Bequeathed by George Salting
- Museum number:
C.2375-1910
- Gallery location:
World Ceramics, room 145, case 5, shelf 3
Chinese blue and white porcelain became immensely fashionable in 17th-century Holland as the Dutch East India Company, established in 1602, began to import this exotic product by the shipload.
The potters of Delft changed their style and the quality of their product in order to compete with Chinese porcelain. Decorations in Chinese style were applied in cobalt blue on the finest white tin-glaze ground.
This plate is copying a Chinese original from the Kangxi period (late 17th century), illustrating a scene taken from the popular Chinese novel 'The West Chamber'.

