Ecuelle
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1740
Materials
Porcelain, enamel, gold
Measurements
250 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 433485
Summary
Équelle or porringer (covered dish for broth or gruel), porcelain, round with flat handles on either side, with a shallow domed lid with a central globular knop, on a dish serving as a stand, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, Qianlong period (1736–95), c. 1740, decorated in enamels in the famille rose palette and gold with antique and precious objects and flower sprays and with bands of blue filled with a cell pattern.
Full description
Possibly referred to in the 1754 Belton inventory, room no. 39 (presumed to be the Chapel Drawing Room) as ‘a sugar Dish & cover & plate (cracked)’.
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1984.