{"id":78021,"date":"2025-09-02T12:46:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aronson.com\/?post_type=product&p=78021"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T10:53:11","slug":"d2136-pair-of-polychrome-petit-feu-and-gilded-butter-tubs-covers-and-stands","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.aronson.com\/zh-hans\/product\/d2136-pair-of-polychrome-petit-feu-and-gilded-butter-tubs-covers-and-stands\/","title":{"rendered":"D2136 Pair of Polychrome Petit Feu and Gilded Butter Tubs, Covers and Stands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Delft, circa 1760<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Each butter tub of octagonal form and painted in the Kakiemon palette on the front and reverse with birds\u00a0perched on branches, repeated on the cover within a border of scrolls and the finial shaped as a reclining fi gure, the stands with the same decoration of birds perched on branches within a scrollwork border encircled\u00a0with floral sprigs.<\/p>\n

Dimensions<\/strong>
\nWidth of stands: 18.7 cm. (7.4 in.)<\/p>\n

Provenance<\/strong>
\nAronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam;
\nAmerican Private Collection<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>
\nIn the seventeenth century it became increasingly\u00a0difficult for the\u00a0Dutch East India Company (VOC)<\/a>\u00a0to import porcelain due to civil unrests in China\u00a0and the Company decided to relocate this trade to\u00a0Japan. Initially, the Dutch ordered copies of Chinese\u00a0porcelain, but soon Japanese products arrived\u00a0on the market and various ceramic decors were\u00a0exchanged with the Delft factories.<\/p>\n

From 1660 the VOC increasingly imported multi-colored porcelain, including Kakiemon. This Japanese porcelain was very exclusive and therefore became a beloved subject for the Delft potters. Objects were produced in a Kakiemon palette often with a typical oriental decoration, as can be seen on this pair of butter tubs. This decoration consists of tied grain sheaves, behind which grow bamboo, pine trees and prunus blossom. A bird is perched on the branches, and sometimes quails or even tigers were painted on the ground. The\u00a0Delft potters recreated this Kakiemon decoration,\u00a0but adapted it to their own Western taste. Japanese\u00a0Kakiemon porcelain is rarely accurately imitated in\u00a0Delft. Usually the Delft Kakiemon decorations were\u00a0expanded and painted as full patterns on European\u00a0forms instead of painting the object only to a limited extent as is common with Japanese Kakiemon. Since\u00a0the price of a Delftware object was largely determined\u00a0by the time spent on the paintwork, it makes sense\u00a0that the Delft painters almost completely decorated\u00a0their objects. The finer, but especially the fuller a piece\u00a0was decorated, the more expensive it was.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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