Urna with lid, a couple. Sen Qianlong, Qing Dynasty

The URNA, with a lid, a pair, standing on gilded bronze assembly. Club shaped with a cuppy lid with a bud in the shape of Fos dog. Decor on the abdomen with two large fields with figures, birds or landscapes, all towards the bottom of a dense mosaic pattern in brown red and black. Around the foot a gold stripe. Purchased at Bukowskis 1924. Price 3.000 Kr. Cf.: Maria Antónia Pinto de Matos The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector’s Vision (2011), vol.II, pp.214-7, nr.313. Beautiful women were a favorite motif in Chinese painting and were often used on porcelain as well. The scene of these vases, with women and a little boy in a beautiful landscape, was a vision of ideal life. For Europeans it was also fascinating as a depiction of “the exotic Orient.” Pair of porcelain vases Pin overglaze enamels, with PEuropean ormolu mounts.Qing dynasty, c.1780 The painting av painting av painting was a painting in Chinese painting, and was painting on porcelain as well. The scene on these vases, with women and male scene in a scene, was a vision of an ideal life. It was also fascinating to be used as a function of “the exotic Orient.”