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Tile panel with a Chinese landscape
Also titled Tegeltableau
c. 1700
- Medium
- earthenware, tin glaze, metal
- Classification
- tile tableau
- Dimensions
- height 171.3 cm x width 79.9 cm x depth 4.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the heirs of J.F. Loudon, The Hague
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
This tile panel was probably part of a wall covering in a room in a palace. The decoration is remarkably bold. The figure of Guanyin (a Buddhist deity) at the upper right is based directly on a Chinese woodcut. The striking black figures represent Brazilian Indians and were added to make the scene more exotic.
