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Fish bowl: C.9-1984

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Current Location: In storage

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Production: Unknown

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Description

Circular hard-paste porcelain fish bowl, painted underglaze in blue and touched with brown. With deep sides, curving upwards and outwards from the base, contracting slightly below, and then widening at the rim. Painted with a bird perched in the branches of a flowering tree, a detached spray of leaves and an insect. With a chain border below the rim.
Four character Qangxi mark, but of 19th century date

Worn rim, hair crack, and discoloured brown in the base.

Legal notes

Given by Miss Doris Ormerod

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 18.4 cm
Height: 14.3 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1984) by Ormerod, Doris, Miss

Dating

19th Century
1800 - 1899

Materials used in production

Underglaze
Hard-paste porcelain

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.9-1984
Primary reference Number: 76378

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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 22 April 2024

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

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