Vaas van faience. Blauw beschilderd met chinoiserie decoratie.
1725 - 1750
Medium
vase
Dimensions
19; 42
About this artwork
height 42 cm
Art Historical Context
This elegant faience vase, standing 42 cm tall and 19 cm in diameter, exemplifies 18th-century European decorative arts from around 1725–1750. Crafted anonymously, likely in a Dutch workshop, it a blue-painted chinoiserie decoration—a whimsical European adaptation of Chinese motifs like pagodas, figures, and floral patterns. The tin-glazed earthenware medium, known as faience, provided a smooth white canvas ideal for vibrant overglaze painting, mimicking the prized blue-and-white porcelain imported from China. Chinoiserie surged in popularity during the Rococo era, fueled by Europe's fascinat...
About the Artist
anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...