IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74992 accession number: C.4-1911 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 17 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dish. Hard-paste porcelain decorated in mottled underglaze blue and painted in famille verte enamels, and gilding. The shallow rounded sides with a broad everted rim resting on a low tapered foot. The interior decorated on the pale, rather smudgy mottled blue ground with a central barbed medallion enclosing a lakeside scene picked out in famille verte enamels, a sage accompanied by his servant carrying a qin crossing an ornamental bridge in the foreground and two further sages conversing on a promontory jutting out behind, a covered boat moored beside a house on the opposite shore and a pagoda rising amongst low pointed hills in the distance; the medallion is encircled by eight floral sprays in gilding and the rim with a gilt border of quatrefoil vignettes enclosing floral sprays interspersed with eight famille verte vignettes alternately enclosing floral clusters behind pierced rockwork and lakeside scenes. The underside with three iron-red peony sprays. The base has two concentric circles in underglaze blue enclosing the mark. object type: Dish. Hard-paste porcelain with a powder-blue ground, reserves painted in famille verte enamels, and gilt with a sage and his servant and two further sages beside a lake in landscape. title: dish LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs James Bedford STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74992 PEOPLE ------------------- sage servant SUBJECTS ------------------- qin ornamental bridge boat house pagoda landscape lake hills qin ornamental bridge boat house pagoda landscape lake hills 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: Diameter units: cm value: 40.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.1 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_4_1911_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_4_1911_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_4_1911_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_4_1911_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_4_1911_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_4_1911_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_4_1911_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_4_1911_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels