Baluster vase
Category
Ceramics
Date
1670 - 1730
Materials
Porcelain and blanc de chine
Place of origin
Arita
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 870798
Summary
A pair of Imari porcelain vases and lids. Of round baluster form, decorated in typical colourings with floral, leaf motifs and exotic birds in reserves. Three large reserves are decorated with storks, flowers, clouds and wisteria. The lids surmounted by blanc de chine figures of girls holding bouquets.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1957 and given to NT by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley as part of the Endowment