IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77609 accession number: OC.17-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 6 September 2012 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, yellow, aubergine, turquoise, blue and two green enamels with details in black and gilding. The steeply rounded well is spirally carved with petals beneath the broad everted rim which has a barbed edge. The interior has a central circular medallion of a lady and a genleman holding fans, walking hand in hand across an ornamental bridge towards a garden pavilion; encircled round the well by sixteen detached floral sprigs alternately coloured green, iron-red and aubergine. The rim has five repeated scenes of a gentleman talking to a lady on a garden terrace with a balcony overlooking tall flowering sprays growing from pierced green rockwork. The underside has four of the Eight Precious Things - the Jewel, the Leaf, the Lozenge and Pair of Books - all tied with iron-red ribbons. object type: Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, yellow, aubergine, turquoise, blue and two green enamels with details in black and gilding with a lady and gentleman on a bridge with five repeated scenes round the rim. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: According to the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue, purchased at Christies, 10.2.16, for £20. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Leonard D. Cunliffe bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77609 PEOPLE ------------------- lady gentleman SUBJECTS ------------------- ornamental bridge fan Eight Precious Things rockwork garden terrace ornamental bridge fan Eight Precious Things rockwork garden terrace TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1662 - 1722 creation date earliest: 1662 creation date latest: 1722 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: Kangxi Period (1662-1722) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 36.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.6 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/OC_17_1938_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_OC_17_1938_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/OC_17_1938_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_OC_17_1938_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/OC_17_1938_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_OC_17_1938_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/OC_17_1938_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_OC_17_1938_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels