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1 of 253523 objects
China
Jar and cover 1650-70
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue | 67.0 x 40.0 cm (whole object) | RCIN 3213
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A blue-and-white porcelain jar and cover. Broad-based potiche with sides spreading gently at the foot and glazed base; the low, domed cover with blue button knob. Painted with an all-over lotus scroll in two ranks, the blooms and leaves outlined in white, with petal borders at the foot and on the neck, the covers painted to match.
See also RCIN 893.
Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume I.Provenance
Either this jar or RCIN 3213 is perhaps no. 288 in the ‘1866’ Windsor Castle Inventory, recorded in Corridor 223 with the note ‘To Buckingham Palace 1930’.
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Medium and techniques
Porcelain painted in underglaze blue
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67.0 x 40.0 cm (whole object)
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