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Vase: OC.33-1936

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Current Location: In storage

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Production: Unknown

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Description

Hard-paste porcelain meiping painted in enamel colours. The tall shouldered body gently tapers towards the slightly flared base and is surmounted by a short cylindrical neck. It is decorated on both sides with a lobed panel enclosing a pair of quail, with feathers in brown highlighted with white, standing on a grassy slope between a clump of bamboo canes, flanked by blue asters and a spray of pink peony growing from behind angular rockwork. The panels are divided above by two shou medallions in blue and yellow. All reserved against the dark rose-pink ground.
The interior is glazed in white and the base is unglazed.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Reginald R. Cory

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 20 cm
Height: 33 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1936) by Cory, Reginald R.

Dating

Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
1736 - 1795

School or Style

famille rose

Components of the work

Interior composed of glaze
Base

Materials used in production

ruby Ground colour
Enamel
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Enamelling

Identification numbers

Accession number: OC.33-1936
Primary reference Number: 77684

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 22 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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