Sugar Box and Cover
ca. 1735 (made)
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Detailed, naturalistic scenes in a distinctive palette of reds, blues and gold derive from designs on Japanese porcelain popularised by the painters in Kakiemon from the mid 1600s. The master Tosa Mitsuoki was particularly associated with this style and he was in turn inspired by paintings of much earlier Song Dynasty China.
This Meissen sugar box and cover is an early example of Kakiemon style being copied on European porcelain.
This Meissen sugar box and cover is an early example of Kakiemon style being copied on European porcelain.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted in enamels and gilt |
| Brief description | Sugar box and cover in hard-paste porcelain of octagonal shape, painted in Kakiemon style, made by the Meissen porcelain factory, ca. 1735. |
| Physical description | Sugar box and cover in hard-paste porcelain of moulded octagonal shape, painted in enamels with the 'Quail Pattern', comprising a pair of quail by a flowering prunus tree and other vegetation. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by J.A. Tulk |
| Production | Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. |
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| Summary | Detailed, naturalistic scenes in a distinctive palette of reds, blues and gold derive from designs on Japanese porcelain popularised by the painters in Kakiemon from the mid 1600s. The master Tosa Mitsuoki was particularly associated with this style and he was in turn inspired by paintings of much earlier Song Dynasty China. This Meissen sugar box and cover is an early example of Kakiemon style being copied on European porcelain. |
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| Accession number | C.25&A-1956 |
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| Record created | March 17, 2009 |
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