Chinese Bowl of Flowers
Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and decorated with a powdered blue ground and painting in blue, green, yellow and red. Square. In the middle, within an octagonal reserve is a Chinese bowl of flowers flanked by small plants. The powdered blue ground has a reserved carnation painted in red in each corner
Donor and date of accession unknown
Depth: 0.9 cm
Height: 12.9 cm
Width: 12.9 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: Unknown
Second quarter of 18th century
George I
George II
Circa
1725
CE
-
1750
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue, green, yellow, and red)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.16x
Primary reference Number: 197236
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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