Tea bowl and saucer
Category
Ceramics
Date
1695 - 1715
Materials
Porcelain, underglaze cobalt blue, café-au-lait glaze, overglaze polychrome enamels and gold
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 581661
Summary
A set of six cups and saucers, porcelain, of octagonal section, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China, 1695-1715; decorated in translucent polychrome (famille verte) enamels and gold, painted with symbols from the Hundred Antiquities (bogu), vases, incense burners, books and planters on stands, the exterior with a café-au-lait tinted glaze; base marked in underglaze blue with a lotus motif.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt