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Pair of jardinières with mounts jardinières: 1740-70; mounts: first quarter 19th century
Porcelain painted in famille rose enamels with blue glaze and gilt metal mounts | H (overall) 61.5 cm, 59.7 cm; W (overall) 79.1 cm, 77.4 cm (whole object) | RCIN 101659
China
Master: Pair of jardinieres with mounts Item: Jardiniere jardinières: 1740-70; mounts: first quarter 19th century
China
Master: Pair of jardinieres with mounts Item: Jardiniere jardinières: 1740-70; mounts: first quarter 19th century
China
Master: Pair of jardinieres with mounts Item: Jardiniere jardinières: 1740-70; mounts: first quarter 19th century
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A pair of Chinese porcelain jardinières with English gilt-bronze mounts by Benjamin Vulliamy. Circular, with rounded sides and flat, spreading rim, and painted in famille rose enamels.
In the main panels are ladies in a fenced garden, and a man in a pavilion playing the qin and a boy looking out of a window; in the cartouches on the neck are flower sprays; the blue glaze is overpainted with gilt lozenge and cloud diaper patterns. Attached to the shoulder on either side is a pair of gilt-bronze winged dragon masks supporting upright geometric ‘Chinese bracket’ handles, fixed to the rim with flower-shaped studs. The vessel sits in a circular gilt-bronze ring, with a fluted and acanthus-leaf band attached to a large square plinth with two entwined dragons in low relief in each corner, with chevron-patterned sides and two scrolled ends, standing on a foot at each corner, framed by pierced ‘Chinese brackets’ with overlapping grooved discs above eight claws, on sunken metal castors. See also RCIN 48.
Text adapted from Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen: Volume II.Provenance
Almost certainly acquired by George IV, by 1820. With another Chinese jardinière (RCIN 48) and four blue-glazed jardinières of English Spode ware in the Collection (RCIN 700), this jardinière was mounted by Benjamin Vulliamy for the Banqueting Room at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, and described in the inventory there (internal reference 1829b). The Chinese cisterns were placed under and between the sideboards on the wall opposite the windows, while the Spode cisterns flanked the chimneypieces. Four, including this jardinière, were sent to Buckingham Palace. This jardinière was noted there in the King's Corridor.
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Porcelain painted in famille rose enamels with blue glaze and gilt metal mounts
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H (overall) 61.5 cm, 59.7 cm; W (overall) 79.1 cm, 77.4 cm (whole object)
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