IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 140359 accession number: C.7-1988 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Hard paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue, onglaze in enamel colours (green, turquoise-green, yellow, red and black) and gilt. The dish is circular with curved sides, standing on a footring, with five spur marks on the base. The centre has warped slightly in firing. In the middle, within two concentric blue circles, there are various flowering plants springing from the lower edge of the inner circle, with a border of branches and floral sprays (blue and red) interrupted by three looped up drapes. On the reverse, outside the footring, there are two concentric blue circles, a narrow band of red scrolls, a blue circle, and large continuous blue scrolls overlaid by three polychrome narcissus sprays. Within a blue circle, there is the six character mark of Chenghua. The dish has a label attached: circular paper, printed in red and green, with an apple tree surrounded by the words '*Holzapfel* Collection'. title: saucer dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Formerly part of the Holzapfel Collection, bought from Gabor Cossa Antiques LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought from Gabor Cossa (Joan Eve), with the Turner Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140359 TECHNIQUES ---------- painted underglaze TECHNIQUES ---------- gilt TECHNIQUES ---------- enamelling CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ culture: 17th Century, Late-18th Century, Early DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 31.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.3