Jingdezhen kilns and Guangzhou enameling workshops
Export Basket and Stand Decorated with Scenes of Chinese Women
1800-1825
Scroll
- Kiln: Jingdezhen kilns
- Decorator: Guangzhou enameling workshops
Export Basket and Stand Decorated with Scenes of Chinese Women
1800-1825
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with overglaze enamel and gold decoration, Basket: 3 7/8 x 8 5/8 x 6 3/4 in. (9.8 x 21.9 x 17.1 cm.)
Stand: 1 3/8 x 9 1/4 x 8 1/16 in. (3.5 x 23.5 x 20.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection
Object Number
2012.429.1-2
The open work designs seen here, cut by hand in the porcelain before it was glazed and decorated, were popular from 1780 to 1825. Similar baskets have been identified variously as fruit or chestnut baskets. The scene places the Chinese woman in an idealized domestic setting.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2012; Dorothy McIlvain Scott, Baltimore
Collection installation, "Asia. Asia in the West," Levy Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, October 5, 2023-
On View: Levy Gallery 2, Case 10/C
