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Duck with lotus leaf
Production: Unknown
One of a pair of porcelain water droppers. In the form of a duck, with a partly opened lotus leaf carriers by its side, acting as a vessel. In green, yellow and aubergine.
Bequeathed by Cecil E. Byas
Height: 7.3 cm
Width: 7.6 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938-01-19) by Byas, Cecil E.
K’ang Hsi (1662-1722)
1662
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1772
Accession number: OC.63A-1938
Primary reference Number: 77783
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Duck with lotus leaf" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77783 Accessed: 2023-06-01 07:27:08
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Accession Number: O.60 & A-1946
Accession Number: OC.63B-1938
Accession Number: E.GA.4683.1943
Accession Number: OC.70.1 & A-1938
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