Beaker with “Posteleӱn Verkooping” (porcelain selling)
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.
Artwork Details
- Title: Beaker with “Posteleӱn Verkooping” (porcelain selling)
- Decorator: Decorated in the Workshop of Daniel Preissler (Bohemian, Prague, active 1675- 1733 Kunstàt)
- Decorator: and Ignaz Preissler (Bohemian, Bedřichovka ca.1676–1741 Kunstàt)
- Artist: based on the print by Pieter Schenck I (Dutch (born Germany), Elberfeld 1660–ca. 1713 Amsterdam) : Chinese en Vremden Nasie, ca. 1692–1711
- Date: beaker ca. 1700–20; decoration ca. 1711–30
- Culture: Chinese, Jingdezhen with Bohemian, Kronstadt (present-day Kunstàt, Czech Republic) decoration
- Medium: Jingdezhen hard-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
- Dimensions: 2 3/4 × 3 1/16 in. (7 × 7.8 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
- Credit Line: Purchase, Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund, 2025
- Object Number: 2025.12
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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