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Production: Unknown (Probably)
White earthenware dish drainer, transfer-printed in blue and painted in red and green enamel, with a dragon holding a pearl.
Dish drainer. White earthenware, transfer-printed in blue under blue-tinted clear glaze and painted in red and green enamels. Oval, pierced by a large central hole surrounded by single holes and small groups of holes. Part of a Chinese four-clawed dragon holding a pearl reserved in a red background decorated with green leaves and reserved white and red flowers. On the reverse, transfer-printed underglaze in blue, a large leaf decorated with scrolls and a small pseudo-Chinese symbol.
Given from the Robert and Elizabeth Hirsch Collection
Height: 2.4 cm
Length: 37.1 cm
Width: 26.6 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1991) by Robert and Elizabeth Hirsch Collection
Early 19th Century
Circa
1810
CE
-
1820
CE
Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour ( cobalt-blue) enamels ( red and green)
Moulding
: White earthenware, transfer-printed in blue under blue-tinted clear glaze and painted in red and green enamel-colours.
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.4-1991
Primary reference Number: 75019
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Dish drainer" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75019 Accessed: 2023-06-09 12:04:29
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Accession Number: C.8E-1977
Accession Number: C.3-1991
Accession Number: C.12 & A-1991
Accession Number: C.10-1991
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