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Covered bowl with figures in landscape

Manufactory Vienna
Factory director Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period Austrian
ca. 1725
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 201
The tripod was used in early dynastic China (2nd–1st millennium b.c.) for offerings of food. During the twelfth century, the form was adapted for burning incense. The eighteenth-century Japanese export version was freely adapted at Delft, Meissen, and Vienna, where its "original" purpose was ignored: by eliminating the piercing in the cover and changing the proportions, the incense burner became a bowl for soup or stew, reverting to the tripod’s earliest function in China.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Covered bowl with figures in landscape
  • Manufactory: Vienna
  • Factory director: Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period (1718–1744)
  • Date: ca. 1725
  • Culture: Austrian, Vienna
  • Medium: Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze
  • Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 6 x 6 3/4 x 6 9/16 in. (15.2 x 17.1 x 16.7 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
  • Credit Line: The Hans Syz Collection, Gift of Stephan B. Syz and John D. Syz, 1995
  • Object Number: 1995.268.303a, b
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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