Bowl cover
Category
Ceramics
Date
1690 - 1700
Materials
Porcelain, cobalt, enamel, gold
Measurements
330 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Arita
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 433498.2
Summary
Cover for a bowl, porcelain, round and domed and surmounted by a bud-shaped finial, made in Arita, Hizen Province, Japan, 1690–1700, decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels and gilding in the Imari style with flowering plants and large stylised chrysanthemum flowers, the petals of which contain further vignettes of flowering plants.
Full description
Possibly referred to in the 1754 Belton inventory, room no. 39 (presumed to be the Chapel Drawing Room): ‘a fine old Japan bowl and cover’.