Covered jar
Category
Ceramics
Date
1630 - 1669
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
393 mm (Height)
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Lacock, Wiltshire
NT 995785
Summary
Covered jar in blue and white porcelain probably made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, mid-17th-century. Of baluster shape, round, decorated with a garden scene, with a gentleman and attendants in front of a pictorial screen (possibly a narrative scene), the lid decorated with children among rocks and with a Buddhist lion finial. Was part of a pair. A version of the same pictorial subject can be seen on a bottle vase in blue and white porcelain, 1635–45, in the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam, inv. no. AK-RAK 1989-14 (Christiaan J.A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: The Ming and Qing Dynasties, London, Philip Wilson in association with the Rijksmuseum, 1997, cat. 63, pp. 76–7).
Provenance
Purchased with the family collection of Abbey contents in situ from Mrs Petronella Burnett-Brown December 2009.