Jar cover
Category
Ceramics
Date
1690 - 1710
Materials
Delftware
Place of origin
Delft
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Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1296795.2
Summary
Cover to a jar (a), part of a three-piece garniture (with TAT/C/96), earthenware with tin-glaze (Delft), of baluster shape, hexagonal section, the cover with lion finial, painted in cobalt blue after Chinese mid-17th century Transitional period models, with scattered flowers between lappet bands, unmarked, Delft, the Netherlands, c. 1690-1710.
Provenance
The 1909 Heirlooms at Tatton inventory records ‘15 Blue and White Delft Vases over bookcases in the library’ and acquired by Earl Egerton.