Pair of dishes. China, East India Company, 18th... Lot 64

Pair of dishes. China, East India Company, 18th century. Enamelled porcelain. Measurements: Pair of dishes with a poly-lobed profile, in porcelain decorated with cobalt enamels on white engobe. An exuberant floral bouquet is inscribed on the seat and plant compositions decorate the rim. Chinese manufacturers soon realised that Europeans were no connoisseurs of porcelain, and produced export porcelain that was vulgar, even flawed, but which in the eyes of Westerners were true works of art. Once the trade was regularly organised, the India Companies supplied Chinese artists with European models, both for forms and decoration. Throughout the 18th century, the blue-and-white series persisted, but of inferior quality, which was then called Nanjing porcelain, and especially the famille rose type.