Little bowls pair – France – Early 19th Century – Lacquered à la chinoiserie.

These two wonderful European bowls have no use. But does beauty always have to serve a purpose? If not to lose ourselves in looking at the details, then to struggle to understand how the lacquerman managed to create such a pictorial surface, so smooth, so silky. The secret is technique à la chinoiserie (there is a lot to say about this, here are some hints: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cineserie).

From the 19th century, French, small in size and in fair condition, certainly full of charm.

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