Dish with Jesus Suffering the Little Children to Come unto Him
Also titled Schotel met Jezus die de kinderen tot zich laat komen
c. 1645 - c. 1660
- Medium
- faience
- Classification
- platter
- Dimensions
- height 7 cm x diameter 45.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The depiction on this charger is based on Dutch rather than Chinese imagery. This is because Willem Verstraeten, after a legal dispute with his son Gerrit, was no longer allowed to make ‘porcelain’ or faience with Chinese-style decorations. From then on, he produced European-style faience and concentrated on the technical refinement of his painted decoration.
