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Vase with mounts vase: 1710-30, mounts: mid–18th century
Porcelain with blue glaze and gilt bronze | 64.8 x 41.3 cm (whole object) | RCIN 11737
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A Chinese porcelain baluster-shaped vase with gilt-bronze mounts (part of garniture of three vases), with short neck and slightly spreading foot; unglazed base. Rich blue glaze on which the traces of former gilt decoration are visible. This central vase is mounted with a circular gilt-bronze top rim, encircled with a leaf motif and panels of short flutes. Rising from it is a pair of high looped handles composed of twisted acanthus stems, which join to embrace the sides of the vase, and spring below from a conforming reeded-band circular foot in which the vase sits, raised on pierced scrolled feet. Larger than the other two (see RCIN 2351.1-2), this vase is the central piece of this garniture.
The vases date from the early eighteenth century (1710-30). The gilt bronze mounts are French from the middle the of the eighteenth century (1740-60).
Favoured at the Qing court (1644–1911) on account of their Ming imperial connotations, glazes in deep cobalt blue were also a popular item of export throughout the period. There are many examples in the Collection of the mottled ‘powder blue’ of the Kangxi reign (1662–1722), with typical overpainted designs in gilt; and gilt-bronze candelabra of this colour were a requirement for the Green Drawing Room (later known as the Banqueting Room Gallery) at Brighton.Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume II.
Provenance
George IV, 1818. Acquired by the dealer Robert Fogg in Paris (along with RCIN 2351.1-2) as recorded as ‘Three Blue ground Jars richly Mounted in Or Molu … bought of Mr Fogg’ (Jutsham Dels I.316), recorded in Jutsham Recs II.35 as: ‘3 Large Blue China Bottles or Jars Mounted in the ancient Style in Or Molu, the Centre one with 2 handles, the Side ones with a handle and Spouts, the height to the top of the handles 25 Inches [63.5 cm], Or Molu Bases … July 7 1818 from Paris by the way of Dover these articles were bought of Mr Fogg …, Sent to Brighton March 27th 1819’. Recorded at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, as ‘A pair of dark blue Ewers, with rich ormolu lips, scroll handles and bases, two feet two inches [66.0 cm]’ (1829B, p. 111), and ‘A Ditto mounted with double handles to correspond, two feet two inches [66.0 cm]’ (1829B, p. 111); in March 1847 sent to Buckingham Palace (1829A, p. 12), where they were recorded in the Silk Tapestry Room in 1921 (1829B, p. 111).
Exhibited in George IV and the Arts of France, The Queen’s Gallery, London, 1966; Carlton House: The Past Glories of George IV’s Palace, The Queen’s Gallery, London, 1991–2. -
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Medium and techniques
Porcelain with blue glaze and gilt bronze
Measurements
64.8 x 41.3 cm (whole object)
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