Objekt 10
Teapot
Description
The colorful transposition of European engraving patterns often transforms gray herons into colorful "birds of paradise". Despite the long and unsafe transport, it seems to have been worthwhile for European merchants to have copies of European luxury ceramics made in China.
Object description
China, around 1760
Porcelain with onglaze painting
Inv. 1948.627. Bequest Dr. Emanuel Hindermann, Birsfelden.