IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 138636 accession number: C.13 & A-1996 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 17 June 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The vase is a heavily potted baluster vase, with a cylindrical neck slightly everted at the mouth, with rounded sloping shoulder tapered to low tapered footrim with a flat, recessed glazed base. It is made from hard paste porcelain, painted in underglaze blue, with red, black, apricot, pink, brown, and turquoise enamels, and gilding. The vase is decorated all over in Imari style; the neck has three panels painted in iron red with gilded lotus reserved on a blue ground. The shoulder has two phoenix (ho-ho) amid cloud scrolls, lotus and scrolling foliage. The body has three lotus panels, one containing two cranes by water with bamboo and prunus, one with kylin (shishi), butterfly and flowering lotus, and the third has a vulture in rocky landscape with iron red, apricot, and gilded scrolling flower heads on a blue ground between the panels. There is a band of classic scroll round the foot rim, above which is repeated in the border around the neck. The domed cover is similarly decorated all over in Imari style, with two phoenix amid cloud scrolls and lotus with a large Buddhist lion finial. The cover has large chips under the rim, with two pieces having been restuck to the rim. Part of the lion's head is missing, along with its right paw and tail. title: vase and cover LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs M. E. Webb STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/138636 TECHNIQUES ---------- enamelling TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding TECHNIQUES ---------- underglaze CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 31.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 61.2