Pair of two dishes; India Company, China, 18th century. Ceramics. They have wear on the gold.

Pair of two plates of the Company of the Indies, China, 18th century.
Ceramic.
They show wear in the gilding.
Measurements: 21.5 x 3 cm (x2).
Pair composed of two ceramic plates ornamented with figurative scenes. Both pieces have a similar design consisting of a central area with a square perimeter where a landscape scene is developed, while the eaves of each plate has four borders inside which floral ornamentation can be appreciated. One of the plates has a gold-over-blue reticule on the eaves.
The East India Company was a generic term for companies that managed trade between a European metropolis and its colonies. The Chinese manufacturers soon realised that Europeans were not connoisseurs of porcelain and produced a vulgar, even flawed, export porcelain, 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.