Cup
Category
Ceramics
Date
1715 - 1730
Materials
porcelain, underglaze cobalt blue, overglaze iron-red enamel and gold
Measurements
40 mm (Height); 66 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 581830.1
Summary
Teabowl (and saucer), porcelain, lobed and fluted, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China, 1715-1730; decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with overglaze iron-red (rouge-de-fer) and gold, the Chinese-Imari palette, painted with a central motif of flowers in the bowl interior, the exterior with radiating narrow arched panels with growing plants, and a second row of smaller panels all alternating is width for flower heads, gold band at the rim.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt