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Bowl. Hard-paste porcelain with a powder-blue ground, and gilt, the central reserve painted in famille verte enamels with a pheasant in flight above flowering tree peony.
Bowl. Hard-paste porcelain decorated underglaze with a mottled powder-blue ground and painted in famille verte enamels, and gilding. The steeply rounded sides resting on a high tapered foot are applied both inside and out with a blotchy dark blue glaze. The exterior is decorated with gilding, now almost completely worn away, with two fan-shaped vignettes enclosing landscape scenes, divided by two quatrefoil floral vignettes, set against chrysanthemum scrollwork; around the rim is a wan-diaper border reserved with four floral vignettes. The interior has barely discernable floral decoration round the sides and a star-shaped medallion at the centre enclosing a scene painted in famille verte enamels of a pheasant in flight above flowering tree peony with two blooms in iron-red and blue The base has two concentric circles in underglaze blue enclosing the mark.
History note: Uncertain before donor, Mrs W.D. (frances Louisa) Dickson
Diameter: 19 cm
Height: 8.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1929-05-31) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa
1662
-
Circa
1722
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( famille verte)
gold
Ground
composed of
cobalt-blue
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain with an underglaze powder-blue ground, famille verte enamels, and gilding
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.8-1929
Primary reference Number: 76159
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76159 Accessed: 2024-11-05 05:40:55
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