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Jingdezhen kilns and Guangzhou enameling workshops

Export Basket and Stand Decorated with Scenes of Chinese Women

1799-1824

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Export Basket and Stand Decorated with Scenes of Chinese Women

Jingdezhen kilns and Guangzhou enameling workshops

Export Basket and Stand Decorated with Scenes of Chinese Women

Export Basket and Stand Decorated with Scenes of Chinese Women

1799-1824

Physical Qualities Porcelain with overglaze enamel and gold decoration, Basket: 3 7/8 x 8 5/8 x 6 3/4 in. (9.8 x 21.9 x 17.1 cm.) Stand: 1 3/8 x 9 1/4 x 8 1/16 in. (3.5 x 23.5 x 20.5 cm.)
Credit Line Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection
Object Number 2012.429.1-2
The open work designs seen here, cut by hand in the porcelain before it was glazed and decorated, were popular from 1780 to 1825. Similar baskets have been identified variously as fruit or chestnut baskets. The scene places the Chinese woman in an idealized domestic setting.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2012; Dorothy McIlvain Scott, Baltimore
Collection installation, "Asia. Asia in the West," Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
On View at the BMA

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