Each cylindrical body is painted in greyish underglaze cobalt blue in a style derived indirectly from Chinese ‘Transitional’ porcelain, 28.5cm.
The 1763 Burghley Inventory records: ‘Queen Elizabeths room….two larger blew and white row-waggons.’
Categories: Ceramics | State Rooms | The Blue Silk Bedroom & Dressing Room |
A pair of Arita blue and white sleeve vases or rollwagons, Japanese, circa 1660-80.
REFERENCE: CER0337
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