Saucer dish
Category
Ceramics
Date
1695 - 1715
Materials
porcelain, underglaze cobalt blue, iron brown glaze, overglaze polychrome enamel
Measurements
38 mm (Height); 228 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Wallington, Northumberland
NT 581612.1
Summary
Saucer-dish, one of two, porcelain, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China, 1695-1715; decorated in underglaze cobalt blue, brown iron oxide glaze (café-au-lait) and overglaze polychrome enamels (famille verte), the inside with a stylised hibiscus blossom in a medallion, surrounded by radiating leaf-shaped panels enclosing flowers, interspersed with flower heads and leaves, rim with hatched border; the exterior with the café-au-lait ground, and similar enamelled design, marked with a chrysanthemum in a medallion in underglaze blue on the base.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt