Charger (c. 1750): Art, History and Details
Charger at the Cleveland Museum of Art: c. 1750, porcelain. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Charger (c. 1750) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
This plate demonstrates the commercial exchange of products—in this case prints and porcelain—between Europe and Asia in the 1700s. Here, a Chinese porcelain factory adapted a French print to decorate a dish for the European market. It depicts a fable by Jean de La Fontaine in which a barrel-maker’s wife dallies with a lover while her husband is working.
Object facts
- Title: Charger
- Date: c. 1750
- Culture: China, Chinese Export, 18th century
- Type: Ceramic
- Technique: porcelain
- Dimensions: Diameter: 36.3 cm (14 5/16 in.)
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Accession number: 1970.48
Collection credit
Gift of the Lucile and Robert H. Gries Charity Fund
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