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Painted by fire: Jean Theodore Royer's Chinese enameled plaques.(Collection from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.)(Critical Essay)
Part I: The porcelain plaques
In the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is a group of eighteen very unusual eighteenth-century Chinese painted plaques. This little collection comprises ten porcelain and eight copper examples, all very carefully painted in polychrome enamels, sepia, and encre de Chine.
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The decoration on some of the plaques follows Western models, others Chinese. All retain their original Chinese frames. Very few similar plaques are known, (1) and so their rarity alone justifies an examination of the Rijksmuseum group. However, their importance is greatly increased by their provenance. The whole ensemble came from the ...
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