Dish
Category
Ceramics
Date
1700 - 1720
Materials
Porcelain, cobalt, enamel, gold
Measurements
330 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Arita
Order this imageCollection
Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 433437.1
Summary
One of three dishes, porcelain, round, fluted and with a scalloped rim, made in Arita, Hizen Province, Japan, c. 1700–20, decorated in the Imari palette in underglaze blue and overglaze red enamel and gold with a stylised chrysanthemum in the centre surrounded by three flowering trees (prunus, wisteria and camellia) interspersed with three floral and foliate roundels (chrysanthemum, iris and peony).
Full description
An Imari covered bowl decorated in a somewhat similar manner with three trees and a central stylised chrysanthemum motif is at Saltram, inv. no. NT 870933.
Provenance
Possibly at Cockayne Hatley, Bedfordshire, and moved to Belton House after 1921; purchased by the National Trust with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1984.