IDENTIFIERS
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id:	77534
accession number:	OC.1-1938

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 4 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: 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.
title:	jar

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Numbered T.114 in the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue, where it is described as purchased at Christies (no date given) and dated Ming


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:	Leonard D. Cunliffe bequest
creditline: Leonard D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77534





TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porcelain, thrown, painted in iron-red, yellow, turquoise, aubergine-brown, black and two green enamels with traces of underglaze blue
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1640 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1640
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	Qing Dynasty

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 22.4

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 26.4



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