Tea bowl
Category
Ceramics
Date
1750 - 1800
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
83 mm (Height); 43 mm (Diameter); 105 mm (Diameter)
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Saltram, Devon
NT 870832
Summary
Chinese porcelain tea bowl and cover, enamelled over a glaze in various colours with butterflies and flowers against a white background. Beneath there is a character square hallmark in underglaze blue on both bowl and lid.
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.