IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72322 accession number: C.16-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 6 September 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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. title: vase LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Reginald Cory, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72322 SUBJECTS ------------------- flowering tree peony prunus lily peach pomegranate flowering tree peony prunus lily peach pomegranate TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain with an underglaze powder-blue ground, famille verte enamels, and gilding throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1662 - 1722 creation date earliest: 1662 creation date latest: 1722 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: Kangxi Period (1662-1722) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.6 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_16_1927_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_16_1927_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_16_1927_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_16_1927_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_16_1927_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_16_1927_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_16_1927_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_16_1927_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_16_1927_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_16_1927_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_16_1927_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_16_1927_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_16_1927_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_16_1927_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_16_1927_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_16_1927_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels