Lid
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1700
Materials
Porcelain, cobalt, enamel.
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Saltram, Devon
NT 870869.2.2
Summary
Lid for a jar, porcelain, cylindrical, domed with a bud-shaped finial, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, Kangxi period (1662–1722), c. 1700, decorated in underglaze blue with panels containing flowers, with additional enamel decoration in green and red 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