Bowl
Category
Ceramics
Date
1775 - 1825
Materials
Porcelain, cobalt
Measurements
23 mm (Height); 185 mm (Diameter); 110 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 870908
Summary
Bowl, porcelain, round with upwardly curved sides and an everted rim, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, 1775–1825, decorated in underglaze blue, on the inside a landscape with hills, water, buidings and bridges and with a pair of figures in the foreground, surrounded by overlapping lobed and pointed bands filled with various geometric patterns, a band with a hexagonal pattern on the rim, the exterior with separate sprays of flowers.
Full description
The kind of Chinese landscape depicted on these basins was the model for the ‘willow pattern’ landscape developed as decoration for Staffordshire glazed earthenware from about 1790 (Copeland 1980). The motif of a pair of figures shown in an area reserved against the surrounding blue is also seen on a pair of basins at Saltram, NT 870767.1-2, and on a pair of drum-shaped porcelain stools at Dyrham Park, NT 452166.1-2.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust by Montagu Brownlow Parker, 5th Earl of Morley (1878-1962), 1957.
References
Copeland 1980: Robert Copeland, Spode’s Willow Pattern and Other Designs After the Chinese, London, 1980., pp. 33–44.