Bottle vase
Category
Ceramics
Date
1700 - 1715
Materials
Porcelain, underglaze cobalt blue (powdered)
Measurements
190.5 mm (Height); 60 mm (Diameter); 360 mm (Circ)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 581613.4
Summary
Bottle vase, one of four, porcelain, of carafe shape with globular base and flaring trumpet neck, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province; China, 1700-1715; decorated in underglaze cobalt blue (painted and powdered); with two leaf shaped reserves on the neck with asters or other plants and three ogival reserves on the base with objects, including vases with peacock feathers and plant-pots from the Hundred Antiquities (Baogu) against a powdered blue ground.
Full description
At Wallington, these vases were displayed above several of the doors in the Saloon in the 19th century, appearing in a drawing (see NT582347) and later in photographs, as was the fashion in the 18th century.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt