IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 138575 accession number: C.12 & A-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 4 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard-paste porcelain dish and drainer, painted underglaze in blue. The base of the dish is unglazed, and the underside of the drainer is only slightly glazed. The oval dish has a cusped edge, narrow sloping rim, deep sides and a flat centre. Decorated with the 'buffalo pattern' on the sides of the well with a trellis diaper pattern, and on the rim with four large and four small floral sprays and a narrow trellis diaper border. On the outside there are four floral sprays. The oval drainer is pierced with a large central hole surrounded by four sprays of leaves seperating four groups of holes. The decoration is en suite with the dish Both pieces have the collector's label, incorporating the initials of the donors and the numbers of their adjacent houses. Circular label with 'S Marchant & Son London WC' on both pieces. There is a small label on the back of the dish 'Chien Lung, 1736-1795; but the RAC thought it could be as late as 1800 title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the Robert and Elizabeth Hirsch Collection Purchased from S. Marchant & Son, London, February 1977. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs Elizabeth Hirsch STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/138575 TECHNIQUES ---------- unglazed TECHNIQUES ---------- underglaze CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1800 culture: Qianlong Period (1736-1795) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown CITATIONS -------- Spode's Willow Pattern and other Designs after the Chinese Fitzwilliam Museum, Annual Report 1991 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_12_1991_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_12_1991_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_12_1991_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_12_1991_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_12_1991_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_12_1991_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_12_1991_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_12_1991_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels