00:00Here we're looking at Chinese porcelain on the top shelf and then European ceramics on
00:10the two lower here in the purpose of showing how China had influenced the other manufacturers
00:18in Europe.
00:19What kind of differences are we looking for between the Chinese originals and then the
00:24European copies?
00:25There's different things.
00:27For example, this dish, the large dish, is Chinese, made specially for the European market.
00:34Using Chinese symbols, Chinese decoration motif, this dish mimics it, but even enhancing
00:43it by this relief that they made.
00:46Sometimes the French adapted to their own taste and to their own idea of what was Chinese
00:53and what was not.
00:54He would have a book with prints and then the European man, never seen a pagoda in his
00:59life, but will draw or copy that pagoda from that book onto his piece of furniture.
01:04This area, which is very interesting, is a mixture between Chinese object origin, like
01:10the paneling here, all the red paneling, the porcelain here, and also imitation of the
01:16Chinese model.
01:17This is not Chinese, this is totally imitation from Germany and Delft.
01:23It's imitating, but also imitating with a need of adapting to your style of living.
01:28In Asia, they don't make furniture on legs, as opposed to Europe, where everything is
01:33on legs.
01:34So, in order to get what you want for your French castle, you have to make a French cabinet,
01:40and if you want it in the style of China, that's when you start integrating Chinese
01:44elements to it.
01:46And that's when it's becoming that kind of chinoiserie style.
01:49You have a mix of the two worlds put together into one object.
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