1622678445000 1622633559000 Standard Record object-288395 1754330640408 1754303218000 1754330627402 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-288395 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/288395 2ccc4426-fb5e-3607-8e54-c8965ebe163f 9 reference term-37642 adlib-term-37642 8f36efe3-4fe1-3da2-9944-000db5687ad7 porcelain reference term-32638 adlib-term-32638 97b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2b enamel Decoration Applied Arts physical description Porcelain, decorated in overglaze grisaille, depicting a human torso opened to reveal the muscles, enclosed within a vine border. Porcelain, decorated in overglaze grisaille, depicting a human torso opened to reveal the muscles, enclosed within a vine border. C.1-2021 1 accession number C.1-2021 288395 priref 288395 2021 2021 2021-06-25 The Fitzwilliam Museum Object entry form 1486 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/288395 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/288395 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Purchased using the Alan Green Fund, 2021. reference agent-203921 adlib-agent-203921 770a2a09-ed3b-3991-bc02-13c2b52dd210 Jorge Welsh Works of Art Ltd 2021 2021 2021-05-10 bought 1750 1750 1750 1750 1760 1 1760 1760 1760 maker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown decorator reference agent-203920 adlib-agent-203920 8a5bb7d1-e319-3f55-b5fa-5ad9f9ba6cbb Pira, Pleun This saucer is an example of the porcelain blanks shipped from China to the Dutch provinces to be decorated in grisaille or polychrome enamels by private painters, who either performed their work in ceramic factories in Delft, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and other Dutch towns, or fired the pieces at low temperature in private muffle kilns. This saucer is believed to be part of a unique tea service illustrated with anatomical drawings. The lid of the sugar basin of the service is inscribed ‘geschildert etn The servies van de Annatomi door Eleum Pira 1761’, giving the name of the painter as Pleun Pira (1734–99), son of Anthony Pira, a pottery decorator from Delft. Pleun Pira married in 1755 and became a citizen of Amsterdam in 1757, living and working as porcelain decorator in Roeterseiland, an industrial part of the city where there were plenty of small kilns. The sugar basin lid, a saucer illustrating the stomach, and a coffee cup with three views of a foetus in the womb are in the collection of the Winterthur Museum, Delaware. A cream jug painted with a skeleton and a coffee cup with a foetus are illustrated in 'Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain' (1978) and a spoon-tray showing trepanning was formerly in the Mottahedeh Collection. The anatomical drawings are believed to be after numerous engravings published in Holland between the 1500s and 1700s. reference term-147373 adlib-term-147373 10a62af3-8778-3dab-8f72-e625a6a00a78 1750s reference term-108120 adlib-term-108120 34558b8e-f250-36aa-98c2-b3479aab35e1 literal China China country China reference term-106501 adlib-term-106501 10cce96f-032e-3e21-bc6f-a0258f55aadb literal Holland Holland country Amsterdam reference term-37642 adlib-term-37642 8f36efe3-4fe1-3da2-9944-000db5687ad7 porcelain Diameter cm 12 reference term-91594 adlib-term-91594 d3814795-e106-33f3-98a0-da73b4855bb6 saucer reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Cf. pp. 178-179, pieces from Winterthur collection from the same service 178-179 reference publication-400002316 adlib-publication-400002316 0e8892e2-32d4-32bf-bf69-4bb3ac9cb973 European Decoration on Oriental Porcelain 1700-1830 Cf. p. 326, a saucer decorated with a portarit of Daniel Raap, signed on reverse by Pleun Pira 326 reference publication-400002317 adlib-publication-400002317 44eb7043-49bb-3033-8f22-41bcf0a8497c Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing dynasties Cf. p. 80, a coffee pot with a skeleton, and a coffee cup with a fetus, from the same service 80 reference publication-400002318 adlib-publication-400002318 fce9f44a-48ab-390f-a121-718edd408127 Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain Cf. pp. 347-348, pieces from the same service 347-348 reference publication-1886 adlib-publication-1886 136c33e8-a6a2-3c33-85e8-c97f17163b3e China for the West, Chinese Porcelain and other Decorative Arts for Export Illustrated from the Mottahedeh Collection

reference term-91594 adlib-term-91594 d3814795-e106-33f3-98a0-da73b4855bb6 saucer

saucer in black enamel reference term-107619 adlib-term-107619 e3219040-32f0-3f6e-84c6-1962944d7d37 painted overglaze object OBJECT