Catalogue Archive → Mai 2014 → A pair of ewers with 'Clobbered' decoration
Japan, around 1690 (Porcelain). Porcelain with rich polychrome and gold decoration. Bellied, handled ewers with lean neck and articulated mouth. H. of each 26,5 cm. - Polychrome porcelain from the Far-East was a luxurious trade good in Europe in the 18th cent. Therefore clever merchants imported blue-and-white ware from Japan and China and had these pieces further decorated with enameled colours and gold in the Netherlands or England (so-called 'Clobbered' technique). See: Kerr/Mengoni, Chinese Export Ceramics, London 2011, p. 94.