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Dish: C.2-1927

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Current Location: In storage

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Ruby-back dish. Hard-paste porcelain of eggshell quality painted in famille rose enamels with a seated lady and two boys beside a table laden with 'Antiques'.

Ruby-back dish. Hard-paste porcelain of eggshell quality painted in pink, blue, green, yellow, black, white, aubergine, brown and iron-red enamel colours. It has shallow, well rounded sides and a broad everted rim. The interior is decorated with a lady holding a pink fan seated beside a wooden ornamental table laden with 'Antiques', looking down at two small boys, one holding a pomegranate and the other a musical instrument made of bamboo. The rim is decorated with three delicately painted clusters of flowering sprays. The underside is applied with a mottled pale rose-pink enamel.

Legal notes

Given by Reginald Cory, MA

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 20.9 cm
Height: 3.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1927) by Cory, Reginald

Dating

Qing Dynasty
Yongzheng (1723-1735)
Circa 1723 - Circa 1735

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( famille rose)

Materials used in production

Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing (coating)

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2-1927
Primary reference Number: 107944
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 11 August 2015 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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