Vase
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1650
Materials
Hard paste porcelain with underglaze blue (cobalt oxide) and overglaze enamel decoration.
Measurements
463 mm (H)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 929280
Summary
Vase, hard paste porcelain, sleeve-shaped, i.e. cylindrical with a waisted neck (a shape sometimes called rolwagen), made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China, c. 1650, decorated in underglaze blue and overglaze wucai ('five colours') enamels with scattered sprays of flowers and fruit.
Full description
References: Emile de Bruijn, Borrowed Landscapes: China and Japan in the Historic Houses and Gardens of Britain and Ireland, London, Philip Wilson Publishers in association with the National Trust, 2023, pp. 23-4 (fig. 6), and see further references listed there. (Emile de Bruijn, November 2023)
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by the 10th Earl of Stamford, 1976.
