Jar cover
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1715
Materials
Porcelain, cobalt, enamels
Measurements
65 mm (Height); 175 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Collection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 433353.3
Summary
Lid for one of a pair of jars (missing its knop or finial), porcelain, domed, 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.