Maker: Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain decorated underglaze in blue, in enamel colours and gold in Imari style. The vessel is oval shaped with two handles, four feet, and a lion finial surrounded by modelled petals on the cover. On each side there is a spray of flowers and foliage which continues onto the cover; one flower on each side and two on the cover have pierced centres. Round the edge of the base there is a petal border. The handles, the lion, and the upper rim of the vessel are gilt. The base is unglazed.
Numbered roku (six) inside the body in unglazed blue, and inside the lid in iron red.
Bequeathed by A. H. Palmer, Esq
Height: 16.6 cm
Width: 20 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1985) by Palmer, A. H.
Handles, Lion, Rim
composed of
gilt
Cover
blue
Underglaze colour
Enamel
Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.15 & A-1985
Primary reference Number: 140133
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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