Sujet

Japanned Bureau Cabinet, c1720. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Japanned Bureau Cabinet, c1720.This spectacular bureau cabinet reflects the fascination with Japanese and Chinese luxury goods in the early eighteenth century, seen through a distinctly European lens. The bright red surface imitated Asian lacquer. The motifs evoke the people and sights of the Far East, but they reflect the limited knowledge and stereotyped views that Europeans held of these distant countries. At the time the cabinet was made, this style of imitation lacquer and decoration was called Japanning. The original owner may have displayed small Asian porcelains in the upper niches.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM24A23_420

Model release

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Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

89,9Mo (3,2Mo) / 36,4cm x 62,0cm / 4294 x 7319 (300dpi)

Mots clés

wood people red historical arts country metal figure figures far east China art Chinese museum color golden design designs oak pine decoration decorative painted Japan Japanese silver scene SCENES brass gold craft crafts wooden antique craftsmanship depiction location gilt century gilded gallery mirror cabinet varnishing mirrors floral furniture gilding artefact concept exhibition exhibit decorated artifact stereotype art museum flowered drawers varnished motif motifs art gallery bureau Colour floral pattern looking glass lacquer Museum of Art Floral Design 18th century Eighteenth Century culture history historic chinoiserie gesso japanning lacquered Orientalism orientalist stereotyping veneer Unknown japanned Applied Arts art centre Clark Art Institute clothes-press linen-press Heritage Art silvered gessoed implied racism racial stereotype Oak wood veneer (probably pear) pine red and black pigments and varnish areas of raised gesso silvered gilt and painted decoration brass.