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Wucai dish: C.667-1991

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Wucai dish

Maker(s)

Unknown

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Description

Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in famille verte enamels, green, iron-red, yellow, black and grey. The dish has deep sides, with slightly everted rim, resting on a shallow foot. It is decorated all-over with a scene depicting four ladies in a pavilion, one holding a teabowl and saucer, and one beside a table holding a ewer. A crane stands by rocks and shrubs in the foreground, and waves leap behind the ladies. The underside is decorated with a peony, a camellia and a lotus spray.

Notes

History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 25-28 April 1933, Stephen D. Winkworth Collection, for £15.0s.0d, Lot 515; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 38.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
17th Century-18th Century
Circa 1662 - Circa 1722

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( famille verte)

Materials used in production

Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, yellow, black and grey enamels

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: round, white, serrated

  • Text: 506a
  • Method of creation: Inscribed
  • Type: Label

Inscription present: green, rectangular

  • Text: SOTH
  • Method of creation: Inscribed
  • Type: Label

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.667-1991
Primary reference Number: 21516
Old object number: CHICER/221

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 23 January 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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