Plaque
Category
Ceramics
Date
1660 - 1686
Materials
Tin-glazed earthenware (faience or 'Dutch Delft'), painted with in-glaze cobalt blue and manganese black, in a painted and gilded wooden frame.
Measurements
435 mm (height) x 477 mm (width)
Place of origin
Delft
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Dyrham, Gloucestershire
NT 452248
Summary
Tile, one of a pair (see also NT 452247), glazed earthenware, rectangular, decorated in blue and white with a Chinese landscape scene including a palm tree, a pineapple plant and a banana plant, Delft, possibly De Grieksche A (The Greek A) factory, 1665-85.
Full description
The image copied from a plate in Johan Nieuhof, Gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China ... (An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China ...), Amsterdam, 1665. References: Emile de Bruijn, Borrowed Landscapes: China and Japan in the Historic Houses and Gardens of Britain and Ireland, London, Philip Wilson Publishers in association with the National Trust, 2023, pp. 28-9 (fig. 10), and see further references listed there.
Provenance
Acquired by William Blathwayt (c. 1649-1717) and thence by descent; purchased by the Ministry of Works in 1956 and transferred to the National Trust in 1961.