Jar cover
Category
Ceramics
Date
Unknown
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
100 x 160 x 160 mm
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Erddig, Wrexham
NT 1145555.2
Summary
Jar cover. Cover for one of three Chinese, Kangxi famille verte porcelain vases and covers, enamelled with birds among flowering lotus, peonies and chrysanthemums, river landscapes utensils, figures and buddhistic lions and deer. The green 'oeil de perdrix' borders are decorated with tobacco medallions; angles with green lines and the cover has a mushroom knop.
Provenance
Although traditionally, associated with a 1682 gift from Elihu Yale (1649-1721), to the then owner of Erddig, the garniture is more likely to have been acquired by Matthew Hutton, senior (c.1676-1728) of Newnham, Hertfordshire, who was Queen Anne’s Sergeant-at-Arms from 1701 to 1710, and later an attorney with the Exchequer’s office: he was married to the sister of the goldsmith banker George Wanley (d. 1729). At his death, Hutton was said to be worth 60,000 l., and the estate passed down through his two unmarried sons. In 1770, their sister Dorothy (d. 1787), widow of Simon Yorke I (1696-1767) of Erddig, inherited Newnham and a town house on Park Lane, where she lived until her death. Much of the London contents, inventoried in 1770, including the seventeenth-century porcelain and delftware, as well as portraits of Matthew Hutton and Mrs. Hutton painted by Queen Anne’s Court portraitist, Johannes Verelst (fl. 1698-1734), c. 1715, are now at Erddig. Given by Philip Yorke III (1905-1978) along with the estate, house and contents to the National Trust in 1973.