Vase
Category
Ceramics
Date
1736 - 1795
Materials
Porcelain, cobalt, gold.
Measurements
315 mm (Height); 100 mm (Diameter); 100 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Saltram, Devon
NT 871004
Summary
Vase, porcelain, baluster-shaped, of rectangular section with chamfered corners, with trumpet-shaped neck and handles in the shape of stylised ancient-style dragons, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, Qianlong period (1736–95), covered with an underglaze blue ground decorated with landscapes painted in gold.
Full description
The use of underglaze cobalt blue to cover the entire surface is sometimes called Mazarin (or Mazareen) blue in English, after the French bleu Mazarin, possibly after Cardinal Mazarin (1602–61), prime minister of France, or his niece Hortense Mancini, Duchesse de Mazarin (1646–99) – but the reason for this is obscure. The cobalt could be applied through blowing, painting or dipping and was decorated in painted gold.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust by Montagu Brownlow Parker, 5th Earl of Morley (1878-1962), 1957.