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Dish: C.49-1998

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Unknown

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Description

Square dish. Hard-paste, greyish, porcelain, moulded, painted with red, pale red, gold-violet, green and black enamels, and gold. Square with shallow rounded sides and inverted scalloped rim which dips slightly in the middle of each side and is canted across the corners, standing on a circular footring. The rim is edged with a dark brown glaze. The cavetto is moulded with a double row of facets centre and border asymmetrically decorated with branches of flowering chrysanthemum and four fans outlined like the chrysanthemums in red; the violet background water outlined in gold and the green leaves with veins precisely delineated in black. The back is undecorated but has a single ring of facets. Five tiny spur marks.

Notes

History note: Pat Butt, Portobello Market, from whom purchased by the donor

Legal notes

Given by Miss Irene Finch

Measurements and weight

Height: 4.2 cm
Width: 18.6 cm

Relative size of this object

18.6 cm4.2 cm What does this represent?

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Place(s) associated

  • Arita ⪼ Japan

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1998-10-12) by Finch, Irene, Miss

Dating

Late 18th century
Circa 1770 - 1800

Note

Japan, Arita

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( iron-red, pale red, gold-violet, green and black) gold

Materials used in production

Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted with iron-red, pale red, gold-violet, green and black enamels, and gold

References and bibliographic entries

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.49-1998
Primary reference Number: 28789
Irene Finch collection: 94/77
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 20 December 2021 Last processed: Monday 20 December 2021

Associated departments & institutions

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

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