IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77417 accession number: MAR.C.99 & A & B-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 November 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Encrusted teapot, cover and stand. Hard-paste porcelain painted in brilliant enamel colours of pink, yellow, green, turquoise, iron-red, purple and gilding. The teapot has a globular body moulded with a frieze of overlapping upright lotus petals in yellow, crimson and turquoise. The loop handle is in the form of a thin stippled stem in lime-green to match the upright spout which is attached by a gilt ribbon at its top to two sprays of water-grass extending in applied relief round the body of the teapot. There are two further ribbon-tied bouquets of lotus applied near the base to form feet. The flat turquoise top is centred with the round cover and decorated with two concentric circles of recessed purple and gilt cones to simulate a lotus-pod. The knop is in the form of a finger-citron painted pale brown. The stand is modelled as a lotus-leaf, the turquoise underside has pink veining applied in relief with lotus stems to form feet. The white interior has incised veining and is painted with a lotus clump. object type: Encrusted teapot, cover and stand. Hard-paste porcelain, painted in pink, yellow, green, turquoise, iron-red and purple enamels and gilding, the bud-shaped teapot moulded with lotus petals stqnding on a leaf-shaped stand, each with three feet formed by applied stems, flowers and leaves. title: teapot 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/77417 TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1723 - 1736 creation date earliest: 1723 creation date latest: 1736 culture: Qing Dynasty CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/MAR_C_99_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1912_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_MAR_C_99_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1912_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/MAR_C_99_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1912_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_MAR_C_99_20_26_20A_20_26_20B_1912_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels