Pot pourri bowl cover
Category
Ceramics
Date
1800 - 1830
Materials
Porcelain and ormolu
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1296848.2.2
Summary
Cover to a pot-pourri bowl, one of a pair, porcelain, the bowls and covers (one missing) formed from lids to jars, decorated with a turquoise ground incised with scroll work (sgraffiato) and painted with polychrome tree peonies, c. 1800-30, with engine turned and pierced omolu mounts at foot and rim, the lids with ormolu pineapple finials, possibly Baldock workshop, England, c. 1820-30.
Provenance
The 1909 Heirlooms at Tatton inventory records ‘Pair Old Chinese Turquoise Enamel egg shell Bowls and covers with ormolu mounts’ in the Drawing Room.