IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75282
accession number:	C.49-1933

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 12 November 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Hard-paste porcelain basin, decorated predominantly in an enamel palette of dark pink, sepia and turquoise with details in blue, yellow, aubergine and green enhanced with gilding. The well rounded sides springing from a slightly countersunk base and rising to a broad everted rim. 
The interior with a central spray of pink peonies growing behind a large brown-grey leaf covered with the emblems of the Eight Daoist Immortals: the double gourd, the fan, the flower basket, the sword, the bamboo tube and rods, the castanets, the flute and the lotus. These are encircled round the well by a frieze of pink and yellow tassels pendent from a stylised lotus border in turquoise, pink and blue. 
The rim with pink trellis and sepia scroll diaper borders arranged one above the other and reserved with eight quatrefoil vignettes alternately enclosing pink peony sprigs, lozenge and conch shell emblems. The underside with three peonies in iron-red
title:	basin

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: A. V. Valentine Richards Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75282





TECHNIQUES
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enamelling

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1740 - 1740
creation date earliest:	1740
creation date latest:	1740
culture:	Qianlong Period (1736-1795)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 38.4

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.2



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