Oxen Treading China Stone in Pits
1780
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1780
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Oxen Treading China Stone in Pits is a 1780 paint by Unknown, a Patna School of Painting work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows men using oxen to tread on china stone in pits. It's a scene from the porcelain industry in China. The painting is interesting because it was made to show Europeans how porcelain was made in China, since they couldn't produce it themselves at the time. To learn more about similar artworks, look at the museum: Victoria and Albert Museum.
The rectangular watercolour painting, rendered in muted tones, depicts two oxen treading china stone in pits beside a river, part of a set of twenty-four illustrating porcelain production processes. The scene focuses on the use of oxen to process one of the two key ingredients for porcelain, alongside china clay. Produced around 1780, the work was intended for European audiences curious about the methods behind Chinese porcelain manufacturing. Acquired in 1910 from Gordon M. Forsyth, it is one of a documented set of twenty-four related works.
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