Bowl and cover
Category
Ceramics
Date
1700 - 1730
Materials
Porcelain, underglaze cobalt blue, iron-oxide
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 581640
Summary
Bowl and cover, porcelain, deep bowl with shallow domed cover with bun-shaped finial, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China, 1700-1730; decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with iron-oxide; painted with radiating panels of stiff leafy blooms terminating in prunus blossoms rather than asters, within ogival panels, repeated on the cover, rims dressed with brown iron-oxide bands.
Full description
The aster pattern was universal, but sometimes associated with the Islamic markets, and this may have been intended for the South East Asian market.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt