IDENTIFIERS
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id:	77417
accession number:	MAR.C.99 & A & B-1912

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 November 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	C. B. Marlay
creditline: C.B. Marlay Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77417





TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1723 - 1736
creation date earliest:	1723
creation date latest:	1736
culture:	Qing Dynasty

CREATORS
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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