18C Antique Unusual Cup Saucer FAUX BOIS Famille Rose Flower sprays

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Condition Report: Overall Condition; See description.

Teacup and saucer

1730-1750

Height of teacup 35 mm (1.38 inch), diameter of rim 64 mm (2.52 inch), diameter of footring 27 mm (1.06 inch)

Height of saucer 18 mm (0.71 inch), diameter of rim 108 mm (4.25 inch), diameter of footring 63 mm (2.48 inch)

Teacup and saucer on footrings, slightly everted rims. Decorated in enamel colours with a central roundel filled with a flower spray surrounded by three medallions filled with flowering plants all on an iron-red-brown ground. Round the rim a scroll pattern border. The reverse is undecorated. The teacup is decorated en suite.

To the Chinese the imitation of one material by another was an artistic challenge. Hence we see objects made of porcelain having the appearance of bronze, bamboo, marble or soapstone, jade, coral, lacquer and, as in this case, wood. This wood grain decoration is named faux bois and must have appealed to the Western Rococo taste with its similar love of illusion. (Jörg & Van Campen 1997, pp.215-215, cat. 239)

For similarly with ‘wood grain’ decorated objects, please see:

• Keramiek uit Azië, (B. Harrisson, Leeuwarden 1985), p. 96, cat. 113. 
• Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing Dynasties, (C.J.A. Jörg in collaboration with J. van Campen, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, London 1997), pp.215-215, cat. 239.

Condition teacup: Some tiny fleabites and a frit with a connected hairline to the rim.

Condition saucer: A frit/small chip with a connected hairline to the rim.

 

References:

Jacquemart & Le Blant 1862, pp. 77-105

Harrisson 1985, cat. 113 

Jörg & Van Campen 1997, cat. 239[:]