Serving dish
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1700
Materials
Porcelain, cobalt, enamel, gold
Measurements
330 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Arita
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 433421
Summary
Serving dish, porcelain, round with upwardly curving sides and an everting rim, Arita, Hizen Province, Japan, c. 1700, decorated in the Imari palette in underglaze blue and overglaze red, green and gold with flowering plants in the centre, with six panels around the sides with lobed cartouches with flowering plants reserved against a blue ground, and with a prunus border around the rim.
Full description
The panelled decoration around the sides is ultimately based on the decoration of Chinese so-called kraak porcelain made for export to the West during the Wanli period (1573–1620).
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1984.