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Large Portuguese Faïence Two Handled Urn
Height: 40.0 cm
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Exhibited: “Un Siècle en Blanc et Bleu, Les Arts du Feu dans le Portugal du XVIIe Siècle”, G. Mendes, Paris 2016
Imposing wheel thrown two-handled 17th century Portuguese faïence urn, delicately painted in cobalt-blue pigment applied onto a tin white glazed background.
The dense decorative scheme, covering the entire body surface, reflects the horror vacui inherited from earlier Islamic models. Nonetheless, although unequivocally guided by oriental references, the artist has chosen to portray the two female figures in a European manner, albeit surrounded by Chinese-like landscapes.
For most of the 16th and 17th centuries, Europeans attempted to replicate the glazed hard porcelain paste that was imported in considerable quantities from China. Unable to unravel the manufacturing secrets of that much admired material, European potters, namely the Portuguese, settled for the production of fine paste faïence objects decorated with motifs reinterpreted from Ming Porcelain.
Imposing wheel thrown two-handled 17th century Portuguese faïence urn, delicately painted in cobalt-blue pigment applied onto a tin white glazed background.
The dense decorative scheme, covering the entire body surface, reflects the horror vacui inherited from earlier Islamic models. Nonetheless, although unequivocally guided by oriental references, the artist has chosen to portray the two female figures in a European manner, albeit surrounded by Chinese-like landscapes.
For most of the 16th and 17th centuries, Europeans attempted to replicate the glazed hard porcelain paste that was imported in considerable quantities from China. Unable to unravel the manufacturing secrets of that much admired material, European potters, namely the Portuguese, settled for the production of fine paste faïence objects decorated with motifs reinterpreted from Ming Porcelain.
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