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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE DOUBLE-WALLED RETICULATED India Company merchantmen. Most European porcelain manufacturers
HEXAGONAL BALUSTER VASES and designers were still exploring and inventing novel ceramic
Qianlong period, circa 1760 techniques, rather than treating porcelain production, as the Chinese
Of hexagonal shape with double walls, the outer walls reticulated with had done for three centuries, as a very large commercial enterprise,
a Buddhist wan (long-life) symbols to the main panels and centered producing millions of pieces of porcelain every year when the climate
by landscape roundels in grisaille and pale enamels, the shoulder was suitable in Jiangxi Province for handling the sensitive clay which
with smaller panels with a reticulated honycomb pattern with famille needed warmth, a cool dry climate and running water to make it
rose landscape roundels, the tall trumpet neck with a reticulated trellis workable and sufficiently plastic, while dried sufficiently not to collapse
cell pattern with leaf-shaped panels painted with chrysanthemums, while being fired in the kiln.
the borders with colorful cell grounds, the spreading foot with ogival
panels of ribboned objects and scholar’s items on a pink and blue One product they had admired for a century before these vases were
lotus ground. made, were the wares very cleverly pierced through the porcelain
20 1/2in (52cm) high (2). body with an elaborate ‘reticulated’ pattern, almost as if treating the
very fragile body as lace; or else piercing them through an outer skin
$7,000 - 10,000 to leave the external filigree porcelain surface partially concealing
decoration painted onto on a flat inner surface. The Dutch imported
乾隆時期 約1760年 粉彩玲瓏帶膽開光六方敞口瓶一對 this type of technologically remarkable (blue and white) bowls in the
mid-17th century, but they were so apparently complicated if not
Published: impossible that the Dutch called these small, pierced bowls ‘Devil
Cohen & Cohen, Baroque & Roll, Antwerp, 2015, p. 71, no. 46 work’. Despite this evidence of remarkable potting skill by the Chinese
in the mid 17th century, the VOC records at the time are full of
出版： complaints about the poor quality of the porcelain they were receiving
倫敦Cohen & Cohen古董行，《Baroque & Roll》，安特衛普，2015 from the Chinese merchants who traveled at this earlier period
年，頁71，圖版編號46 between Jingdezhen and the Dutch trading station in Taiwan with their
annual porcelain orders.
Westerners were fascinated by the technical skills that Chinese potters
exhibited in the first half of the 18th century when huge quantities of References: Cohen & Cohen, 2007, p. 11, no. 7, a pair of reticulated
standard Chinese porcelain were reaching Europe every year on East vases of different shape; Wirgin, 1998, pp. 106-110, a single vase; C
sheaf and R. Kilburn, The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes, p. 71, pl.110

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