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Dish: OC.62-1938

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Leaf-shaped dish. Hard-paste porcelain enamelled on the biscuit in blue, yellow, iron-red, turquoise, aubergine, two tones of green and black, with gilding with a butterfly, chrysanthemum and rock plants.

Leaf-shaped dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted on the biscuit in an enamel palette of blue, yellow, iron-red, turquoise, aubergine and two tones of green with details in black and gilding. Part of a large supper set, the dish is of asymmetrical four-sided form, tapered towards the slightly countersunk base. The galleried rim has a narrow flat top decorated with a turqoise ground cracked-ice border pencilled in black and set at regular intervals with blue and white flowerheads. The centre has a panel of the same shape as the dish enclosing a scene of a butterfly hovering near sprays of red, blue, yellow and aubergine chrysanthemum growing amongst grasses behind jagged rockwork. The sides on the interior and exterior, the rims and the base are all smeared with a colourless, faintly iridescent glaze.

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 22.9 cm
Height: 3.3 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1939-01-19) by Byas, Cecil E.

Dating

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

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( turquoise, aubergine and two tones of green and black and gilding) gold

Materials used in production

colourless, faintly iridescent Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing (coating)

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: John Sparks, 128 Mount Street, W.
  • Type: Label

Identification numbers

Accession number: OC.62-1938
Primary reference Number: 77779

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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