Direção-Geral do Património Cultural

Adaptation
c.1860
José Procópio Ribeiro

Sugar bowl for sugar sachets, inspired by the decorative door paintings from the Chinese Room, with chinese inspired motifs suggesting lacquered paint, assigned to José Procópio Ribeiro.
The taste for Orientalism, in the 19th century, meant there had to be a space where architecture and decoration framed oriental objects or style.

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