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清乾隆 銅胎畫琺瑯西洋仕女嬰戯圖瓶

The women and children depicted in the landscape on this vase wear European attire. Their costume and the artist’s use of techniques such as shading and linear perspective demonstrate the eighteenth-century Chinese fascination with Western imagery.

Credit: Bequest of Mary Clark Thompson, 1923...

18th century
Painted enamel on copper
47.6cm
24.80.316
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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