Vase
Category
Ceramics
Date
1700 - 1820
Materials
Porcelain, cobalt, enamel.
Measurements
125 mm (Height); 50 mm (Diameter); 30 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Saltram, Devon
NT 870852
Summary
Pair of vases, porcelain, round, baluster-shaped, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, possibly 18th or early 19th century, decorated with flower sprays in underglaze blue, with additional enamel decoration in green, red, light blue and yellow added in Europe, possibly in London, early 19th century.
Full description
The practice of adding enamels to blue and white Chinese porcelain was known in Britain as ‘clobbering’ and was particularly popular in the early 19th century, when there was a glut of blue and white porcelain and the ‘Regency’ taste of the period favoured bright colours (Espir 2018).
Provenance
Given to the National Trust by Montagu Brownlow Parker, 5th Earl of Morley (1878-1962), 1957.
References
Espir 2018: Helen Espir, ‘The Atrocious Unsworth – Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Clobbered in London in the 19th Century’, English Ceramics Circle Transations, vol. 29 (2018),, pp..199-216