Vase
Category
Ceramics
Date
1850 - 1900
Materials
Hard paste porcelain
Place of origin
France
Order this imageCollection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1296809.2
Summary
Vase, one of a three-piece garniture, hard-paste porcelain, after a Sèvres shape introduced in 1754, painted in the Imari palette of underglaze blue, iron-red and gold, with scattered flowers, and the arms of Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater, quartering Basset and Stanley, and inscribed ‘The Right Noble Scroop Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater’, unmarked, France, possibly Edmé Samson & Cie, c. 1850-1900.
Provenance
The three vases appear on the mantel of the Dining Room in Country Life, March 24, 1906, p. 419, and are recorded in the same location in the 1909 list of heirlooms at Tatton ‘ Set of 3 Lowestoft Vases 18 inches high with Coat of Arms & inscription…’. Maurice Egerton recorded in a notebook dated 1920, under ‘Dining Room’, ‘The three mantelpiece vases were bought by Earl Egerton’; Earl Egerton was Wilbraham Egerton (1832-1909), Viscount Salford and Earl Egerton of Tatton. Publication: For a discussion see David Sanctuary Howard, Chinese Armorial Porcelain, (London, 1974). p. 941.
Marks and inscriptions
The Right Noble Scroop Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater, 18th century (East India Co. export) (inscribed with an armorial)