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Famille rose dish: MAR.C.95-1912

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Famille rose dish

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Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in bright enamel colours, pink, iron-red, aubergine, two greens, yellow, turquoise, blue, white and black with a garden scene of an official and two maidens walking along a striped causeway.

Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in bright enamel colours, pink, iron-red, aubergine, two greens, yellow, turquoise, blue, white and black. The well rounded sides spring from a slightly countersunk base and rise to a broad everted rim. The interior is decorated with a large central medallion showing an official carrying an ornamental lantern walking along a causeway striped in turquoise and dark pink, and acompanied by two maidens. The causeway is flanked by rockwork picked out in a 'famille verte' palette of turquoise, blue, green, and aubergine outlined in black, and brightly coloured prunus and tree peony. The roof of a palace is seen in the distance behind a high wall shrouded in bright pink clouds. The well has two sprays of pink peony alternating with two branches of white prunus. The rim has alternating turquoise and pink diapers decorated with large sprays of peony, chrysanthemum and lotus and reserved with four vignettes alternately enclosing pairs of crabs and single crayfish among waterweeds. The underside has four sprigs of lingzhi fungus in iron-red.

Legal notes

C.B. Marlay Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 36.9 cm
Height: 7.1 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

Qing Dynasty
Yongzheng (1723-1735)
Circa 1723 - Circa 1735

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( famille rose)

Materials used in production

Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing (coating)

Identification numbers

Accession number: MAR.C.95-1912
Primary reference Number: 77414

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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 17 January 2025

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

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