Vase with coiling dragon

Manufactory Vienna
Factory director Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period Austrian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 201

The artists at Du Paquier were inspired by a wide variety of sources. It is clear from many formal and decorative parallels that the manufactory had access to both Chinese and Japanese porcelain. Du Paquier, however, seldom copied Asian models directly, preferring instead to adapt and “improve” forms and decoration to suit European taste. Here, the Du Paquier artist was inspired by a Chinese porcelain dragon encircling a vase but imbued the dragon with a European character.

Vase with coiling dragon, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain with raised decoration painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze, Austrian, Vienna

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Vase with coiling dragon, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain with raised decoration painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze, Austrian, Vienna
Vase with coiling dragon, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain with raised decoration painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze, Austrian, Vienna
Vase with coiling dragon, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain with raised decoration painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze, Austrian, Vienna

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