Vase
Category
Ceramics
Date
1700 - 1720
Materials
porcelain, underglaze cobalt blue (powdered); wire; silk
Measurements
410 mm (Height); 490 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Wallington, Northumberland
NT 585465.1
Summary
Jar, missing cover, one of a pair, porcelain of ovoid shape, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China, 1700-1720; decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with four large panels of foliage and rockwork or a landscape and four smaller alternating roundels with foliage, on a powdered blue ground panels; converted to electricity for use as a lamp.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt