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Baluster vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, yellow, turquoise, aubergine-brown, black and two green enamels, with traces of underglaze blue, with a peacock and other birds, flowers and foliage reserved on iron-red scale diaper ground.
Baluster vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, yellow, turquoise, aubergine-brown, black and two green enamels with traces of underglaze blue. The shouldered body is gently tapered towards the slightly splayed, unglazed base. The sides are decorated with a continuous garden scene of a peacock perched on an outcrop of pierced green rockwork surrounded by sprays of iron-red flowering tree peony, bamboo and an iron-red camellia, a songbird is perched on one of its branches and two similar birds are in flight nearby, and the sun setting in the sky above. All reserved against a ground of iron-red scale diaper. There is a border of overlapping petals in red, green and yellow round the base and a narrow classic scroll band round the shoulders beneath the short flared neck with lipped rim, encircled by a band of alternating red and green sharp pointed petals. All between line borders in faint underglaze blue.
History note: Numbered T.114 in the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue, where it is described as purchased at Christies (no date given) and dated Ming
Leonard D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937
Diameter: 22.4 cm
Height: 26.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
Qing Dynasty
Circa
1640
-
Circa
1700
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( iron-red, yellow, turquoise, aubergine-brown, black and two green)
cobalt-blue
( underglaze)
Body
composed of
glaze
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, painted in iron-red, yellow, turquoise, aubergine-brown, black and two green enamels with traces of underglaze blue
Accession number: OC.1-1938
Primary reference Number: 77534
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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