IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131129 accession number: EC.2-1939 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 12 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain vase, painted overglaze in blue, turuqoise, yellow, red, and black enamels, and gilt, after ajapanese Kakiemon original. The hexagonal vase is of ovoid shape, with convex shoulders, and straight neck. The sides are painted alternatively with ho-o birds among flowering foliage, and with peony plants. The shoulders are reserved with alternate quatrefoil panels of phoenix, and red flowerheads, on a ground of blue karakusa scrolls, and the neck has a red key fret border. A pair with C.1-1939. object type: Soft-paste porcelain vase, painted in enamels in Kakiemon style title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Edmund Charles Nugent,Bart., West Hailing Hall, Norfolk, sold 26 April, 1929, The Nugent Hairlooms. The Property of the late Sir Edmund Chalres Nugent Bart, of West Hailing Hall, Norfolk,. Lot 170; bought for 16 guineas (presumably by C.H.B. Caldwell). LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by C.H.B. Caldwell STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131129 TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1753 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1753 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II culture: Red anchor period (1752-1756) CREATORS -------- maker: Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: From Reason to Revolution, Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain title: Porcelain for Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750 CITATIONS -------- From Reason to Revolution, Art and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain Chelsea Porcelain, the Red Anchor Wares Porcelain for Palaces: The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750 ---