Set of four plates; Company of the Indies, 18th century. Ceramics. They have minor flaws.

Set of four plates of the Compañà a de Indias, 18th century.
Ceramic.
They have slight faults.
Measurements: 2 x 23 cm (x4).
Lot made up of four dishes of rounded profile, in ceramic decorated with cobalt enamels on white engobe. They all have a similar decoration based on plant motifs although they differ from each other. 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 connoisseurs of porcelain, and produced export porcelain, vulgar, even flawed, 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.