IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38437 accession number: C.8-1967 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 August 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain flask, painted underglaze in blue. The flask is of flattened circular pilgrim shape, with a narrow cylindrical neck. It is painted on one side with bamboo and peony in a fenced garden, the reverse with a tree peony growing from rockwork. Both sides are edged with a trellis-diaper border. The neck is painted with the initials I-B and the date 1778, a flowerhead on the reverse. Three stilt marks appear on the side of the body, and the mouth is stopped with a cork, sealed with a crest in red wax. object type: Soft-paste porcelain flask, painted with Oriental flowers in underglaze blue. title: flask NOTES ----- type: history note value: F.A. Crisp Collection, sold Sotheby's, 14th February 1935, lot 74, £12 10s 0d.; G.F. Hotblack Collection, sold Sotheby's, 6th December 1955, lot 15, £31. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs F. Recordon STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38437 SUBJECTS ------------------- fence peony rock garden fence peony rock garden TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1778 - 1778 creation date earliest: 1778 creation date latest: 1778 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Lowestoft Porcelain Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 21.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of Lowestoft China Inscribed and Dated Lowestoft Porcelain The Illustrated Guide to Lowestoft Porcelain Connoisseur, February 1969 Marks and Monograms on European and Oriental Pottery and Porcelain Lowestoft Porcelain in Norwich Castle Museum ---