China
Bowl and cover with mounts bowl and cover late 14th- early 15th century, mounts: 1730
Porcellanous stoneware with incised decoration under a celadon glaze, mounted in gilt bronze | 31.0 x 35.9 x 27.4 cm (whole object) | RCIN 100266
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Bowl and cover of celadon glaze with French gilt-bronze mounts. The cover is mounted with a berried foliate finial above a central flower spray within a ribbed border, and a stepped round disc engraved with strapwork and scrolling foliage on a pounced ground. It is secured by a bolt and nut to a plain, grooved disc applied to the underside.
The top rim of the bowl is fitted with a rim of gilt bronze moulded with S-scrolls and acanthus sprays. Scrolling side handles cast with rockwork and C-scrolls terminate at the circular foot below. The foot is supported on elaborate, pierced scroll feet with acanthus leaf pendants between.
The mounts are similar in style to other early mounted pieces in the Collection.
Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume I.Provenance
Bought by George IV, when Prince of Wales, in 1802. The bowl is evidently the ‘truly Unique and Magnificent China bowl dish, and cover of the Mandarin Sea Green Porcelain and Or Moulu mountings’ for which Harry Phillips was paid £84 on 16 March 1802.
Recorded at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, in 1829: ‘A sea green Bowl & Cover, mounted in gilt bronze rims, fruited knob, scroll handles & base, twelve ins.' Sent to Buckingham Palace in March 1847. -
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Medium and techniques
Porcellanous stoneware with incised decoration under a celadon glaze, mounted in gilt bronze
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31.0 x 35.9 x 27.4 cm (whole object)
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