Item:Q34056: verschil tussen versies
Verklaring aangemaakt: beschrijving (P113): Note: ‘Black Delft’ was the rarest production of a very few Dutch Delft factories during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century when the taste for the exotic thrived. These black-glazed Delftwares were inspired by Oriental and subsequent European lacquer wares as well as by Chinese ‘famille noire’ porcelain of the Kangxi period (1662-1722), both the so-called ‘mirror black’ type with its lustrous monochromatic ground, often left undec... |
Verklaring aangemaakt: beschrijving (P113): Whereas the Chinese ‘famille noire’ porcelains tended to be large and decorative, the forms found in ‘Black Delft’ are generally small: occasionally figures, vases and ornemental objects, but more often useful wares, frequently associated with tea, which was an essential aspect of the fascination with the exotic, and which by 1680 had become a beloved beverage in Holland, its almost ceremonial consumption a particularly favored pastime of fashio... |
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Whereas the Chinese ‘famille noire’ porcelains tended to be large and decorative, the forms found in ‘Black Delft’ are generally small: occasionally figures, vases and ornemental objects, but more often useful wares, frequently associated with tea, which was an essential aspect of the fascination with the exotic, and which by 1680 had become a beloved beverage in Holland, its almost ceremonial consumption a particularly favored pastime of fashionable ladies. However, the inability of the porous Delftware clay and its fragile tin glaze to withstand the thermal shock of a hot beverage, combine with the difficult technology of firing the ‘Black Delft’ glaze and enamels successfully, must account for the rarity of the surviving pieces, of which only about 65 are known today. (Engels) | |||
| eigenschap / beschrijving: Whereas the Chinese ‘famille noire’ porcelains tended to be large and decorative, the forms found in ‘Black Delft’ are generally small: occasionally figures, vases and ornemental objects, but more often useful wares, frequently associated with tea, which was an essential aspect of the fascination with the exotic, and which by 1680 had become a beloved beverage in Holland, its almost ceremonial consumption a particularly favored pastime of fashionable ladies. However, the inability of the porous Delftware clay and its fragile tin glaze to withstand the thermal shock of a hot beverage, combine with the difficult technology of firing the ‘Black Delft’ glaze and enamels successfully, must account for the rarity of the surviving pieces, of which only about 65 are known today. (Engels) / rang | |||
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