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A TURQUOISE-GLAZED BALUSTER VASE
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, early 18th century
27 cm high
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 3382.
The ovoid body rising to a foliated mouth rim, the walls of the vase naturalistically moulded in a series of vertical ribs, to the neck a knotted ribbon with the two extremities falling on the body, the turquoise glaze turning to paler tones according to the moulded decoration.
Chinese porcelain with turquoise glaze was particularly appreciated in France in the eighteenth century. A revival of this production was promoted in that same country also in the nineteenth century, thanks mainly to the work of Joseph-Théodore Deck (1823-1891) who introduced in his repertory ceramics with a turquoise glaze – the so-called ‘bleu de Deck’ – explicitly inspired, also in the shapes, by Chinese items from the eighteenth century, therefore promoting a renovated spread in Europe of the Orientalist taste.
