Guglet
Category
Ceramics
Date
1750 - 1800
Materials
Porcelain, enamel
Measurements
240 mm (Height); 80 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 870813
Summary
Guglet or bottle vase, porcelain, pear-shaped, with a globular ‘bulb’ below the everted rim, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, Qianlong period (1736–95), second half 18th century, decorated in the famille rose (‘pink family’) palette in red, orange, purple, blue, yellow, green and black with female figures among precious objects on the body, the neck with overlapping lobed and pointed bands and cartouches with birds and flowers in red, black and gold.
Provenance
At Saltram House by 1962.