Jar
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1715
Materials
Porcelain, cobalt, enamel
Measurements
390 x 200 mm
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 433353.2
Summary
One of a pair of jars, porcelain, of baluster shape and with a domed lid (missing its knop or finial), Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, Kangxi period (1662–1722), c. 1715, decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels in the famille verte (‘green family’) palette with a pattern of antique objects (bogu 博古) among floral and foliate scrollwork.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1984.