Maker: Unknown
Square hard-paste porcelain dish, with incurved corners. In the middle is a cock and hen. On the side are two dragons, two stylised floral sprays, and clouds. On back of the sides are four sprays. Painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in green, red, yellow and black enamels and gilt. There are remnants of gilding on the rim
Mark: Painted underglaze in blue within two concentric circles
Lent to the museum by Mr and Mrs Roger Jenyns
Height: 2.4 cm
Width: 15.3 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 (1984) by Jenyns, Roger, Mr and Mrs
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Production date:
circa
AD 1715
Rim Remnants composed of gilt
blue
Underglaze colour
overglaze
Enamel
Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: JL.4-1984
Primary reference Number: 140518
Jenyns Number: 5
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Dish" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140518 Accessed: 2023-05-28 08:43:58
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