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CHAPTER 3 Enamelled Porcelain Consumption in Eighteenth-century China
three dimensional objects can create a more vivid scene of flowers and animals.
Innovations and adaptations of other designs in three-dimensional porcelain, forming
of the product and the application of a two-dimensional image, were so effective in
establishing the quality of fine porcelains.
Figure 3-2 Porcelain painted in over-glaze enamels.c.1723-1735, Diameter: 15.7 cm
Photo Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, museum number: 1991 c-1855.
Designs were drawn from other materials, such as embroidery and Chinese
paintings, but enamelled porcelain allowed the pattern to be a more recognisable and
more strongly coloured version. Figure 3-3 shows a painting from Giuseppe
Castiglione, depicting flowers and a butterfly. The richness of the colours and details
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