Bowl
Category
Ceramics
Date
1690 - 1710
Materials
Porcelain, cobalt, enamels, gold
Measurements
230 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Arita
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 433426
Summary
Bowl, porcelain, octagonal, with an everted rim (and may have had a cover originally), made in Arita, Hizen Province, Japan, 1690–1710, decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels and gold in the Imari style with alternating square and circular panels with flower vignettes on the interior, flowers in a jardiniere in the centre, small flower vignettes on the rim and flowering plants issuing from rockwork on the exterior.
Full description
Possibly referred to in the 1754 Belton inventory, room no. 39 (presumed to be the Chapel Drawing Room): ‘2 small basons and covers’. An almost identical bowl is in the Groninger Museum, Groningen, inv. no. 2003.0076. A somewhat similar bowl is in the collection at Kasteel Twickel, Ambt Delden, The Netherlands (see Fitski 2010).
References
Fitski 2010: Menno Fitski, ‘Old Coloured Japanese Porcelains of the First Class: The Kakiemon Collection at Twickel Castle’, Aziatische Kunst, vol. 40, issue 4 (July 2010), pp. 2–21, fig. 24 (p. 14)