Wine pot
Category
Ceramics
Date
1740 - 1770
Materials
Hard paste porcelain
Measurements
13.5 x 16 cm
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Saltram, Devon
NT 870878
Summary
Wine pot and cover in the shape of a cockerel. Moulded in hard paste porcelain and produced in China. The tail feathers provide the curved handle, the lid is set on the top of the back, and the beak forms the spout. The pot is decorated in famile rose and yellow enamel. The Saltram Collection (1967): No 241T, p.48
Provenance
At Saltram by 1951 and accepted by HM Treasury in lieu of full payment of Death Duty from the Executors of Edmund Robert Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley
References
The Saltram Collection (1967):, No. 241T, p. 48.