IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77409 accession number: MAR.C.90 & A-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 28 November 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Jar and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in a rich variety of enamels of brilliant tones, two greens, pink, blue, yellow, iron-red, turquoise, aubergine, black and white. The heavily potted baluster body is decorated with a continuous garden scene showing two peacocks near an outcrop of pierced blue rockwork surrounded by huge sprays of flowering tree peony, pomegranate and magnolia trees, enclosed by an ornamental balustrade in blue and white enamel. The reserve has a pink and green bird perched on a branch of tree peony gazing up a its mate in flight above, with three winged insects. The shoulders are encircled by an elaborate border of pendent lappets alternately coloured blue and iron-red and reserved with white foliate scrolls and pink and gilt flowerheards. The short neck has a lipped rim painted with two floral clusters. The high domed cover is encircled round the everted rim by a pale green brocade-diaper border reserved with iron-red flowerheads and decorated on the top with ruyi-shaped lappets of turquoise and trellis-diaper divided by pale pink peony studded panels encircling the knop, modelled as a large seated Buddhist lion. object type: Jar and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in a rich variety of enamels with a continuous garden scene of peacocks amid flowering plants. title: jar LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77409 TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, thrown, and painted in a rich variety of enamels of brilliant tones, two greens, pink, blue, yellow, iron-red, turquoise, aubergine, black and white throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1723 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1723 creation date latest: 1750 culture: Qing Dynasty CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 38 dimension: Height units: cm value: 64 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/mid_MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/preview_MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/mid_MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/preview_MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/mid_MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/preview_MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/mid_MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/preview_MAR_C_90_20_26_20A_1912_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels