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Ewer and Basin

Date

about 1740

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamel decoration, and gilding

Culture

German

Department

Decorative Arts

Institution

Getty Museum

Elaborately decorated with multi-colored panels of landscape scenes, this ewer and basin combine influences from a variety of sources. The ewer's helmet shape copies a metalwork form, while the flowers decorating the stem and handle derive from Japanese ceramics. The painted scenes are attributed to Christian Friedrich Herold, who began working at the Meissen Porcelain Manufactory in 1726. He became a prominent painter there, specializing in landscapes. Both the ewer and basin are decorated with landscape and harbor scenes containing figures in contemporary European dress.

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