Dish
Category
Ceramics
Date
1736 - 1795
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
450 mm (Length)
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Saltram, Devon
NT 870764.4
Summary
Dish - A pair of oblong octagonal dishes from a Chinese porcelain tobacco leaf dinner service made for the European market in the reign of Chien Lung. Decorated in deep blue, red, green, turquoise and other colours, gilded on a near white ground.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of death duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley and transferred to NT in 1957.