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Factory: Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain bottle vase, painted predominantly in pale green and pink enamels. The massively potted spherical body rests on a countersunk base, with shoulders tapered towards the tall, gently flared neck. Superbly painted with an overall design of two flowering and fruiting peach trees.
The grey-blue and brown trunks rise side by side from the base with branches extending round the body and up the neck, the large fruits are painted in dark rose-pink shading to lime-green, the blossom is pale pink and in white tinged with green and pink with yellow stamens, the lush foliage in turquoise and lime-green.
Seal mark of Qianlong in underglaze blue.
History note: Unknown before testator
Reginald R. Cory Bequest
Diameter: 38.2 cm
Height: 51.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1936) by Cory, Reginald R.
Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
Circa
1736
CE
-
1795
CE
Seal Mark composed of underglaze ( blue)
Accession number: OC.40-1936
Primary reference Number: 77709
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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