Covered jar
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1765 - c. 1775
Materials
Enamelled and gilded porcelain
Measurements
137 cm (H), 490 cm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 1245538.2
Caption
Jars like this one were made in pairs and sets for the European market. The intense shades of pink enamel, later known in Europe as famille rose or ‘pink family’, began to be used on Chinese porcelain from about 1720. Ironically, the Chinese called them yangcai, or ‘foreign colours’, because some of the enamelling technology had come from Europe.
Summary
One of a pair of porcelain covered jars, Chinese, 1765–75. Of baluster shape, decorated with figures in gardens in overglaze famille rose enamels within leaf-shaped reserves against a dark blue ground, the covers with a gilded Buddhist lion finial, probably made in Jingdezhen Jiangxi province, and decorated in Guangzhou (Canton), Guangdong province, China.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Dame Margaret Greville, DBE (1863-1942).