Bookstand
Category
Ceramics
Date
1700 - 1800
Materials
Blanc de chine
Measurements
130 x 64 mm; 43 mm (Length)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Saltram, Devon
NT 870830
Summary
A pair of blanc de chine porcelain Dogs of Fo bookstands. One is white and the other a slight cream in colour, both standing on rectangular bases.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Estate Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley and transferred to NT in 1957.