IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77702 accession number: OC.38A-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 27 June 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bottle. Hard-paste porcelain with a mottled underglaze powder-blue ground and painted in famille verte enamels, and gilding. The elegant pear-shaped body is surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck slightly flared towards the rim. The mottled bright blue ground is decorated with three lobed quatrefoil panels, one enclosing members of the 'Hundred Antiques' including a hare on an artemesia leaf, a flanged vase with peacock feathers, a ruyi sceptre, a conch shell, censers and a bundle of scrolls, and the other two with delicate flowering sprays of chrysanthemum, lily and dianthus and long grasses intertwined and windswept, all picked out in bright famille verte enamels. There is a key-fret border beneath an upright ruyi-head band in gilding at the base of the neck and a matching pendent ruyi-head band at the rim. The interior and base are white of yellowish-brown tone. object type: Bottle. Hard-paste porcelain with an underglaze powder-blue ground, painted in famille verte enamels, and gilt, with three quatrefoil reserves one enclosing members of the 'Hundred Antiques', the other two with chrysanthemum, lily, dianthus and grasses. title: bottle NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Cunliffe Collection Catalogue records that the pieces were purchased from Dickenson. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Leonard D. Cunliffe creditline: Bequeathed by Leonard. D. Cunliffe STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77702 SUBJECTS ------------------- hundred antiques hare chrysanthemum lily dianthus grasses hundred antiques hare chrysanthemum lily dianthus grasses TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain with an underglaze powder-blue ground, famille verte enamels, and gilding throwing 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: 14.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 28.6