Dish
Category
Ceramics
Date
1750 - 1780
Materials
porcelain, underglaze cobalt blue, polychrome enamels and gold
Place of origin
Arita
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 581632
Summary
Two dishes, porcelain, saucer-shape with decafoil (ten-lobed) rims, made in Arita, Japan, c.1750-1780; decorated in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels (Imari-style) with gold details, painted with three bamboo leaves overlaid on a flowering prunus (blossoming plum) branch above a stylised wave patterns, within double blue lines, the rim borders with two long panels of bamboo and paulownia divided by a dense ground of prunus flowers and leaves in iron-red and gold; the undersides with a six-character commemorative Chenghua period (1465-1487) mark 'Da Ming Cheng Hua Nian Zhi'.
Full description
One of these dishes appears in a 1918 photograph published in Country Life displayed above the South Door in the Saloon entering the Library.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt