Wine cistern
Category
Ceramics
Date
1740 - 1750
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
270 mm (Height); 420 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Cotehele, Cornwall
NT 347510
Summary
Chinese blue and white porcelain oval wine cistern for chilling bottles in crushed ice. Lion mask handles and lipped rim. Qianlong period, c.1740-50.
Provenance
illustrated in A.H.Malan, 'Cotehele - a Feudal Manor House of the West' (More Famous Homes of Great Britain and their stories, New York and London 1902). p.79.