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Charger
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This plate demonstrates the commercial exchange of products—in this case prints and porcelain—between Europe and Asia in the 1700s. Here, a Chinese porcelain factory adapted a French print to decorate a dish for the European market. It depicts a fable by Jean de La Fontaine in which a barrel-maker’s wife dallies with a lover while her husband is working.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCharger, c. 1750. China, Chinese Export, 18th century. Porcelain; diameter: 36.3 cm (14 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Lucile and Robert H. Gries Charity Fund, 1970.48
