Pair of trays; India Company, China, 18th century. Porcelain. Provenance: Private Collection formed

Pair of trays; India Company, China, 18th century.
Porcelain.
Provenance: private collection conceived since the 1970s between London and Madrid.
Measurements: 3 x 23,5 x 33,5 cm (x2).
Pair of porcelain trays that present a design based on oriental scenes, since in each one of them a figurative scene of a landscape with architecture of oriental aesthetics is represented. Chinese manufacturers soon realised that Europeans were not connoisseurs of porcelain, and produced export porcelain that was vulgar, even flawed, but which in the eyes of Westerners were 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,