IDENTIFIERS
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id:	311361
accession number:	O.1 A-C-2022

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 14 July 2022
updated:	Wednesday 26 July 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A cloisonné enamel water pot, cover and stand, a glass tube inside the pot to contain water. Qing dynasty.
object type: The underside/interior of the gilded copper alloy cover has extensive shallow pitting from corrosion. The gilding on the cover, the foot, some cloisons and is partly abraded on the high relief, and almost entirely abraded from the top of the rim, consistent with a long period of use. The interior of the chipped glass liner has some undisturbed moth webbing, including the (empty) pupa of a case-bearing clothes moth attached by webbing to the side wall. The stone base may not be original. If a later addition, this is an old attachment. It has old, ink(?)-stained textile lining (no pest-damage) on the underside. There are no other signs of alteration or additions.
title:	water pot

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Acquired in New York City, circa 1950, and thence by descent; sold, Sotheby’s New York, 23 March 2022, lot.277; Edwin Mok and Bing Wu


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Edwin Mok and Bing Wu

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/311361





CATEGORIES
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category: cloisonné

DATING
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culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown