Maker: Unknown
Square inkwell with original liner and cover. Made from hard paste porcelain, with painted overglaze in polychrome enamels and gilding. Decorated with the 'three friends' (pine, prunus and bamboo) while the lid is decorated with a figure in a pavilion.
On loan from Douglas and Mary Barrett
Height: 8.1 cm
Length: 13 cm
Width: 13 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Loan (1995) by Barrett, Douglas and Mary
Gilt
Enamel
Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: BL.18 & A-1995
Primary reference Number: 140083
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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