These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Production: Unknown
Triple-gourd vase. Hard-paste porcelain with a powder-blue ground, reserves painted in famille verte, and gilt, and decorated with vignettes enclosing tree peony, prunus, lilies, peaches and pomegranates with ruyi-head borders.
Triple-gourd vase. Hard-paste porcelain with a mottled powder-blue ground and painted in famille verte enamels, and gilding. The lower spherical bulb is resting on a short, slightly splayed foot and decorated with four alternating vignettes of barbed flower and ingot shape; the floral vignettes showing branches of flowering tree peony and prunus growing from the left, the ingot-shaped vignettes enclosing similar day lilies; the four are divided by a gilt border of ruyi-heads pendent from a zig-zag band from the central spherical bulb of smaller size decorated with a frieze of two peaches alternating with two pomegranates; this bulb is divivided by a gilt border of ruyi-heads pendent from a castellated band from the small uppermost bulb with two fan-shaped vignettes of prunus branches. There are two leaf-shaped vignettes of floral sprays on the slender trumpet neck. The decoration is all picked out in famille verte enamels on the mottled deep blue ground. The base and interior are white.
Given by Reginald Cory, MA
Height: 22.3 cm
Width: 11.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1905-04-10) by Cory, Reginald
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa
1662
-
Circa
1722
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( famille verte)
gold
Ground
composed of
cobalt-blue
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain with an underglaze powder-blue ground, famille verte enamels, and gilding
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.16-1927
Primary reference Number: 72322
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Vase" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72322 Accessed: 2024-11-04 18:16:11
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72322
|title=Vase
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-04 18:16:11|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-72322
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_16_1927_281_29.jpg"
alt="Vase"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Vase</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
