Shaving dish
Category
Ceramics
Date
1730 - 1770
Materials
Porcelain, enamel, gold
Measurements
83 mm (Height); 347 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Saltram, Devon
NT 873006
Summary
Shaving dish or barber’s bowl, porcelain, oval with a section left out to fit around the throat of the person being shaved, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, Yongzheng period (1725–36) or Qianlong period (1736–95), mid-18th century, decorated in the centre with a (probably spurious) coat of arms in blue, green and pink enamels and gold, featuring a shield with three birds, a line of downward-facing spearheads in gold on the edge of the bowl, and on the rim European rococo-style scrolled cartouches in a grisaille effect using black and grey enamels and gold, filled with a geometric pattern and in one case with a European-style landscape, combined with pairs of cornucopias on either side.
Provenance
Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust, 1957.