PLATES IN PORCELAIN WITH ASIAN SUBJECTS

A painted porcelain plate decorated with Asian figures in a landscape. The meticulous description of outfits and physiognomies, the liveliness of colors and the intimacy of the scenes testify to the period's taste for faraway lands and their peoples, which never ceased to fire the imagination throughout the 19th century. Gilded wood frame, richly carved with foliage, garlands and ovals. Restoration period. In the 18th century, the Far East fascinated the Western world, and everything it produced was universally admired and imitated. In France, the movement gained momentum under the reign of Louis XV, giving rise to numerous pieces of furniture and objects "in the taste of China". As for the charming, imaginative and picturesque interpretations made by artists, they were often the product of the utmost fantasy. The bronze clocks of the Louis XV period feature Chinese men and women of varying degrees of fantasy, and a whole vocabulary that draws its inspiration from a variety of exotic sources. Chinese decorations persisted into the reign of Louis XVI and continued into the Restoration. Bibliography: "Les céramiques chinoises d'Ernest Grandidier", in L'Objet d'art, n° 412, April 2006, p. 72-79. Charles X period, Circa: 1830 Dim: W:22cm, D:4cm, H:24cm.