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Maker: Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain dish with ruby back, of eggshell quality, painted in rich enamel colours. The sides are shallow and rounded, and the rim is broad and everted. The centre is finely painted with a large leaf shaped medallion, the edges furled and slightly decayed, showing three quail on a grassy bank besides sprays of pink rose, dianthus, daisy, and millet growing behind blue pierced rockwork. Reserved against a pink cell-diaper band. The rim with three vignettes of peony, rose and chrysanthemum, reserved against an intricate composite floral scrollwork border within a pink trellis-diaper band.
The underside is applied with a mottled deep pink glaze.
History note: Described as being 'one of a original pair from Christie's'
Leonard D. Cunliffe Bequest
Height: 3.3 cm
Width: 21.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
Yongzheng (1723-1735)
1723
CE
-
1795
CE
Rim composed of gilt
Accession number: OC.46-1938
Primary reference Number: 77735
T.94
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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