Covered bowl with figures in landscape

Manufactory Vienna
Factory director Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier period Austrian

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 201

The tripod was used in early dynastic China (2nd–1st millennium b.c.) for offerings of food. During the twelfth century, the form was adapted for burning incense. The eighteenth-century Japanese export version was freely adapted at Delft, Meissen, and Vienna, where its "original" purpose was ignored: by eliminating the piercing in the cover and changing the proportions, the incense burner became a bowl for soup or stew, reverting to the tripod’s earliest function in China.

Covered bowl with figures in landscape, Vienna, Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze, Austrian, Vienna

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