IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 131271 accession number: EC.24A-1939 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 30 January 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain vase, painted underglaze in blue with Buddhist emblems, Chinese ladies playing musical instruments, and flowers. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought by the Friends from Sotheby's (from the owner), 23rd June 1939 for £12 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131271 PEOPLE ------------------- female musician TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: in value: 5 3/8 dimension: Height units: in value: 10 1/4 CITATIONS -------- English Blue and White Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century English Porcelain and 19th Century European Ceramics The Rous Lench Collection, Volume One, English Pottery and Porcelain ---