Buddha with disciples

Rectangular plate in thick porcelain framed in wood. It depicts the Buddha and 16 Lohans – his followers, against garden architecture and water. The number of 16 followers appears in East Asian tradition and art as a special mystical-metaphorical formation of Buddhist equivalents of apostles or saints. Decoration in the familie rose colour palette. The belonging of a particular vessel to one of the style groups depends on which colour of enamel was used as a base for its decoration; in this case the base is pink. The famille rose decoration began to be used at the end of the 1820s. The best examples of this type of porcelain come from Yongzheng period (1723–1735). At the end of the Kangxi period, pink began to be used to paint flower petals on porcelain. This decoration became so popular in Europe that porcelain of this type was regularly imported to our continent during the Rococo style. Smooth oak frames, decorated with a thin gilt band – pearls and rollers ornamentation. China, dating from the 19th century.