Jardinière with mounts jardinière: 1740-70; mounts: first quarter 19th century
Porcelain painted in famille rose enamels, with blue glaze | 61.6 x 77.5 x 58.6 cm (whole object) | RCIN 48
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A Chinese porcelain jardinière with English gilt-bronze mounts by Benjamin Vulliamy. Circular, with rounded sides and flat, spreading rim. Painted in famille rose enamels with peonies and other flowers growing by a rock in the main panels. 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 an 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.
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 two other jardinières (RCIN 101659) and four blue-glazed jardinières of English Spode ware in the Collection (RCINs 700.1–4), this jardinière was mounted by Benjamin Vulliamy for the Banqueting Room at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, and described in the inventory there. 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 and noted there in the White Drawing Room in March 1914.
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Creator(s)
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Medium and techniques
Porcelain painted in famille rose enamels, with blue glaze
Measurements
61.6 x 77.5 x 58.6 cm (whole object)
Category
Object type(s)
Place of Production
Jingdezhen [Jiangxi Province]
