Bulb Vaseopaline with enamelled polychrome and gold decoration composed of arabesques, flowers and crosses in the orientalist taste on a marbled burgundy background. Trace of a mark under the heel. Late 19th century.
Late 19th century, Circa: 1900
Dim: W:12cm, D:12cm, H:32cm.
Condition report: Slight wear to gilding on collar edge.
Documentation:
Fascination with the Orient and its exotic scenery dominated the 18th and 19th centuries. China was at the origin of this infatuation with the customs and artistic forms of distant peoples. The source of this fascination shifted with the conquests and establishment of colonial trading posts. In the 18th century, chinoiseries and turqueries invaded the drawing rooms and gardens of sovereigns and wealthy aesthetes who prided themselves on their taste for the "Orient". Henceforth, baths were Turkish, furniture lacquered, tapestries Persian and cashmere shawls of Indian origin... In the following century, the Moorish style flourished with the Alhambra in Granada, and several Turkish boudoirs appeared in Europe. In the 19th century, Orientalism underwent a major evolution. As early as 1829, Victor Hugo noted in the preface to his "Orientales" that "the Orient has become a general preoccupation". Discerning collectors were in search of an inaccessible or vanished elsewhere, fascinated by the unusual or the unprecedented, or simply looking for the extravagant satisfaction of a whim.
- Reference :
- 1994
- Availability :
- Object available
- Width :
- 12 (cm)
- Height :
- 32 (cm)
- Depth :
- 12 (cm)
- Identifier Exists:
- False
