Bottle vase
Category
Ceramics
Date
1795 - 1820
Materials
Porcelain and silver gilt
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1296825
Summary
Two bottle vases, porcelain, covered with a sea-green or celadon-like glaze and painted in famille rose enamels with scattered flowers and insects beneath a spearhead border in iron-red, gold details, Jingdezehn, China, marked in underglaze blue with a six-character Qianlong seal mark, Qianlong period (1736-1795), decorated in Canton, China, c. 1795-1820, mounted at the mouth and foot with a gilt-silver collar, the mouth flat chased with a stylized Mughal lotus motif and the foot engraved with an Islamic Moresque pattern on a matted ground, hallmarked JA for James Aldridge (similar to Grimwade No. 1768), lion passant, leopard’s head, h and the head of George IV, London, 1823-24.
Provenance
The 1909 & 1920 Heirlooms at Tatton inventory records ‘Pair Old Chinese Celadon ground Oriental Bottle Shape Vases, enameled in flowers &c silver-gilt mounts’ in the Drawing Room.