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Cup: C.48 & A-1933

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Current Location: In storage

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Production: Unknown

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Description

Ruby-back style teabowl and saucer, one of a pair. Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamel colours and gilding. Each piece is elaborately decorated with a central cluster of peony, naracissus, single chrysanthemum and finger citron, encircled by a narrow pale green trellis-diaper band within eight radiating lotus petal panels of alternating pale pink blue and yellow cell-diaper, reserved against a dark gilt ground with pink flowerheads flanked by delicate green scrollwork.

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A. V. Valentine Richards Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 11.5 cm
Height: 4 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1905-04-16) by Valentine-Richards, A. V., The Rev

Dating

Yongzheng (1723-1735)
1723 - 1735

School or Style

famille rose

Materials used in production

Gilt
Enamel
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Enamelling
Gilding

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.48 & A-1933
Primary reference Number: 75237
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 8 June 2023 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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