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Photo: Paul Macapia
Saucer
Photo: Paul Macapia

Saucer

Dateca. 1723-25
Label TextThis saucer is an excellent example of the fanciful, sometimes odd scenes depicted in chinoiserie. Here, an exotically robed gentleman in a feather-eared cap is attempting to drive a sta-tionary chair harnessed to two tortoises. A huge mosquito flies overhead.
Object number87.142.101
Photo CreditPhoto: Paul Macapia
Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "Porcelain Stories: From China to Europe", February 17, 2000-May 7, 2000Published ReferencesFinlay, Robert. "The Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World History". Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2010, illustrated pl. 20 Emerson, Julie, Jennifer Chen, & Mimi Gardner Gates. "Porcelain Stories, From China to Europe." Seattle, WA: Seattle Art Museum, 2000, p. 195
Credit LineDorothy Condon Falknor Collection of European Ceramics
Dimensions1 in. (2.54 cm), height 5 in. (12.7 cm), diameter
MediumBöttger porcelain
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