IDENTIFIERS
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id:	77522
accession number:	OC.11-1936

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 22 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, aubergine and three green enamels of soft washed tones.  The small dish has shallow rounded sides springing from a low slightly tapered foot and rising to a narrow flattened rim.  The interior well is painted with a naturalistic design of a bird perched on the slender branch of a fruiting peach tree.  The rim is encircled with a cell-diaper band in pale iron-red reserved with four cartouches enclosing the characters 'wan shou wu qiang' - 'A myriad longevities without end', the imperial birthday greeting - interspersed with pairs of flowrheads.
object type: Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, aubergine and three green enamels of soft washed tones with a bird perched on the branch of a peach tree.
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before testator


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
creditline: Reginald R. Cory Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77522


SUBJECTS
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bird
peach tree
bird
peach tree



TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1662 - 1722
creation date earliest:	1662
creation date latest:	1722
culture:	Qing Dynasty
culture:	Kangxi Period (1662-1722)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 14.3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 2.4



CITATIONS
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The Later Ceramic Wares of China
Transaction of the Oriental Ceramic Society
For the Imperial Court--Qing Porcelain from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
Ceramic Art of the World—Ch’ing Dynasty
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IMAGES

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