IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73205
accession number:	C.2-1956

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 12 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Porcelain dish with a shaped rim, decorated in blue, and drawn and painted with three flowering lotus flowers within a barbed medallion (a design which is rare), enclosed by 12 vertical sprays of flowers emblematic of the months.  The rim is decorated with a narrow border of archaic lotus meander, the underside of which has 12 vertical sprays alternately of lotus and ling chick fungus.
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sold at Sotheby's January 31st 1956, lot 18.  The property of Mrs B. A. Cobb.  Bought by Bluett


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: Bought from Bluett & Sons, with the C. J. M. Adie Fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73205





CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1426 - 1435
creation date earliest:	1426
creation date latest:	1435
culture:	Ming Dynasty

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 38

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 6.7



CITATIONS
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Annual Report of the Fitzwilliam Museum Syndicate for 1956
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