Pair of dishes; Company of the Indies, 18th century. Ceramics. They have flaws and hairs.

Pair of plates of the Company of the Indies, 18th century.
Ceramic.
They have faults and hairs.
Measurements: 3 x 22 (x2).
Pair of plates made in ceramic that stand out for their ornamentation based on cobalt blue on white. Both have floral decoration both on the base and on the eaves. Despite their similarities, the two pieces differ in both design and form. The East India Company was a generic term for companies that managed trade between a European metropolis and its colonies. Chinese manufacturers soon realised that Europeans were not experts in porcelain, and produced a vulgar, even flawed porcelain for export, but which in the eyes of Westerners turned out to be true works of art. Once the trade was regularly organised, the India Companies supplied Chinese artists with European models, both for forms and decoration. Throughout the 18th century the blue-and-white series persisted, but of inferior quality, which was then called Nanjing porcelain.