Plate with scene from "Les Oies de Frère Philippe"

Decoration after Nicolas Lancret French

ca. 1745

Not on view

This plate depicts a tale from a famous collection of stories by a seventeenth-century French author, Jean de La Fontaine. The story concerns a young man encountering women for the first time, as seen here, and it served as the subject of a painting by Nicolas Lancret, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see 2004.86). The plate faithfully reproduces Lancret’s composition, and it reflects the adoption of European images by Chinese potters in order to appeal to foreign markets.

Artwork Details

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Provenance

Title: Plate with scene from "Les Oies de Frère Philippe"
Artist: Decoration after Nicolas Lancret (French, Paris 1690–1743 Paris)
Date: ca. 1745
Culture: Chinese, made for export
Medium: Porcelain
Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 7/8 × 9 × 9 in. (2.2 × 22.9 × 22.9 cm)
Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain-Export
Credit Line: Purchase, Friends of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Gifts, 2016
Object Number: 2016.114
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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