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Bowl: OC.36-1938

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Current Location: Gallery 28 - Arts of Asia Gallery

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Bowl. Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, iron-red, blue, yellow, turquoise, aubergine and black enamels, and gilding with four panels containing kylin and leopard.

Bowl. Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, iron-red, blue, yellow, turquoise and aubergine enamels with details in black and gilding. The steeply rounded sides are resting on a high straight foot circled by a key-fret border pencilled in iron-red and rising to a broad everted rim. The exterior is delicately enamelled with four lotus-petal shaped panels outlined in blue springing from a band of ruyi-heads. Three of the ruyi-heads enclose differently coloured kylin and one encloses a leopard, all have trailing gilded flames, and are reserved against a cell-diaper ground painted in green, aubergine and iron-red outlined in black. The rim on the underside is entirely undecorated. The interior rim is decorated with a matching cell-diaper border reserved with four vignettes enclosing ribbon-tied pairs of Emblems. There is a single horned kylin a the centre.

Notes

History note: Described in the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue as purchased from Dickenson, (no lable), for £25.

Legal notes

L.D. Cunliffe Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 20.9 cm
Height: 10.3 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham

Dating

Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa 1662 CE - Circa 1722 CE

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel ( green, iron-red, blue, yellow, turquoise and aubergine and black enamels) gold

Materials used in production

Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing (coating)

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: Three character mark: Je Cun Jai, within a double circle

  • Location: On the base
  • Method of creation: Painted in underglaze blue
  • Type: Mark
  • Text: T. 105, L.D.C.
  • Type: Label

Identification numbers

Accession number: OC.36-1938
Primary reference Number: 77695

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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