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Production: Unknown (Uncertain)
Hard paste porcelain painted with red, green and black enamels. Circular, unusual shape, shallow with steeply rising low rounded sides resting on a low footring. The inside is painted with an asymmetrical design of fronds of unrolling fern and mosses outlined in black and grasses in red.
History note: One of six purchased in Islington by the donor
Given by Miss Irene Finch
Diameter: 12.3 cm
Height: 2.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1998) by Finch, Irene, Miss
18th Century
Circa
1700
CE
-
1800
CE
China or Japan, perhaps painted in Japan. According to the donor the glaze is very green, and it is well potted suggesting China or quite late Japanese, but overglaze is no different from the 17th Century
Decoration composed of enamels ( red, green and black)
Accession number: C.34-1998
Primary reference Number: 28722
Irene Finch collection: 88/92
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: C.27-2017
Accession Number: C.24-2017
Accession Number: C.96B-1918
Accession Number: C.96C-1918
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