Ravishing canton polychrome porcelain cut.

We find on this canton porcelain the characteristic decor painted on a white background representing great polylinked medallions or cartridges alternating palace scenes and scenery of bird patterns, plants, flowers, and butterflies.

Time: mid nineteenth
Dimensions: Diameter 20cm

Funds full and quite searched use gold.

The painter uses the circular shape of the object to represent the scenes continuously. Here we find the Chinese characters in a palace, surrounded by flower friezes.

The colors remain vivid, especially with clear greens and roses.

In the second half of the nineteenth century, while Japan imposes itself as a source of artistic inspiration, and that the image of China and its inhabitants is tarnished, several collections of Chinese, private and public porcelain, are met. in France.

Rarely isolated, often associated with other oriental or Western objects, these parts are grouped together within large sets by their size and by their number.

These collections break with the craze for Chinese productions in France in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Merchants and collectors are now turning to new pieces, moving away from mounted porcelain and blue and white.

Chinese porcelain continue to haunt the popular imagination and are part of China’s representation at that time.