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Brush pot: OC.37-1936

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Current Location: Gallery 28 - Arts of Asia Gallery

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Factory: Unknown

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Description

Hard-paste porcelain brush pot, painted in enamels and gilding. The pot has straight, upright sides shaped in the form of two overlapping diamonds to give four wide vertical surfaces and four narrow ones. The wider sides are painted respectively with a pheasant perched on an outcrop of rockwork amongst sprays of flowering tree peony, a beetle among day lily and dianthus blooms, an aubergine butterfly hovering above chrysanthemum sprays, and a pale pink butterfly in flight near three poppies.
Each of the narrower sides with a fourteen character poem written in black, and bearing the Qianlong seal mark in iron-red. All edged with a raised pale iron-red border decorated with a gilt scroll. The interior and base are glazed in turquoise.
Seal mark of Qianlong in underglaze blue

Notes

History note: Unknown before testator

Legal notes

Reginald R. Cory Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 10.2 cm
Width: 13.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
Circa 1736 CE - 1795 CE

School or Style

famille rose

Components of the work

Seal Mark composed of underglaze colour ( blue)
Border composed of gilt
Interior, Base composed of glaze

Materials used in production

Enamels
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Enamelling
Gilding

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Identification numbers

Accession number: OC.37-1936
Primary reference Number: 77698

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 17 February 2025

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

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