Large bowl or pot; India Company, Japan, Edo period, 18th century.

Large bowl or pot; India Company, Japan, Edo period, 18th century.
Hand-glazed ceramic.
Measurements: 21 x 31 cm.
When made in hand-glazed ceramic that has an ornamentation based on elements of vegetable character structured based on bands and cartouches.
The East India Company was a generic term for those companies that managed the trade between a European metropolis and its colonies. The Chinese manufacturers soon understood that Europeans were not experts in porcelain and produced a vulgar export porcelain, even with flaws, but which in the eyes of Westerners were authentic works of art. Once the trade was regularly organized, the India Companies supplied Chinese artists with European models, both for forms and decoration. Throughout the 18th century the blue and white series persisted, but of inferior quality, which was then called Nanjing porcelain.