Beaker with “Posteleӱn Verkooping” (porcelain selling)
Decorated in the Workshop of Daniel Preissler Bohemian
and Ignaz Preissler Bohemian
based on the print by Pieter Schenck I Dutch, born Germany
The Bohemian workshop of Daniel and Ignaz Preissler was active on the Kolowrat estates in Kronstadt (present-day Kunstàt, Czech Republic) and specialized in transforming unembellished glass and porcelain objects with their extraordinary decorations. These typically drew on print sources and their imagination. This beaker made of Chinese Jingdezhen porcelain depicts a pair of porcelain merchants selling their wares in Batavia, the headquarters of the Dutch Vereeinigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC, the trading company that brought Asian porcelain objects to European households. Decorated using Schwarzlot, a technique that used black enamel with fine details scratched with a needle, the beaker is based on a Dutch print by Pieter Schenk. The Preissler workshop has added elements from different print sources, however, as well as their own decorative motifs such as the palm tree, to create an imaginary landscape that shaped the decorative language of Chinoiserie.
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