IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131146 accession number: C.16-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 2 June 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain plate, decorated underglaze in bright blue. Circular with sloping rim and wide shallow well, decorated in the middle with a seated and a standing Chinese figure in a landscape with a flowering tree. On the sides of the well, between narrow bands, there are panels of trellis diaper alternating with a leaf or a twig. On the rim there are three flowering branches and a narrow band round the edge. The reverse is decorated with three twigs. Historically, this pattern has been referred to as, the 'Mandarin' pattern. object type: Glazed soft-paste porcelain plate, painted underglaze in blue with the 'Mandarin' pattern title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Collection of the late Dr Hugh Statham (1895-1967) and Mrs Margaret Statham (d. 1970); lent anonymously in 1970 by their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham (d. 1990) by whom bequeathed LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M.Government in 1990 in lieu of Inheritance Tax, and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131146 PEOPLE ------------------- Chinaman SUBJECTS ------------------- flowering tree leaf on a twig flowering tree leaf on a twig TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1752 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1752 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 22 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Bow Porcelain CITATIONS -------- Bow Porcelain Dated English Delftware The Long Collection of Delf & Ceramicware ---