Cleveland Museum of Art

Charger

Date

c. 1750

Medium

porcelain

Culture

China, Chinese Export, 18th century

Department

Decorative Art and Design

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This plate demonstrates the commercial exchange of products—in this case prints and porcelain—between Europe and Asia in the 1700s. Here, a Chinese porcelain factory adapted a French print to decorate a dish for the European market. It depicts a fable by Jean de La Fontaine in which a barrel-maker’s wife dallies with a lover while her husband is working.

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