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Vase: C.23-1912

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Current Location: In storage

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Production: Unknown

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Description

Double-gourd vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, turquoise, yellow, aubergine and two iron-red enamels outlined in underglaze blue with an official and two attendants, five playing children, balustrades and pierced rocks.

Double-gourd vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, turquoise, yellow, aubergine and two iron-red enamels outlined in underglaze blue. The lower spherical bulb is decorated with a continuous scene of an official in a red robe standing beside a table with pierced case legs, flanked by attendants, one holding a fan and another a jin, on a balustraded terrace with pierced rockwork. There is a green-ground florette zig-zag border round the waist beneath three small flowerheads. The upper pear-shpaed bulb has five children at play on a similar terrace beneath a green zig-zag band.

Notes

History note: One of eighteen pieces bought with the aid of the National Art Collections Fund from S.M. Franck and Co., 25 Camomile Street, E.C.

Legal notes

Given by the National Art Collections Fund

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 15.6 cm
Height: 27.2 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1912-05-07) by National Art Collections Fund

Dating

Qing Dynasty
Circa 1662 - Circa 1722

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( green, turquoise, yellow, aubergine and two iron-red) cobalt-blue

Materials used in production

Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, painted in green, turquoise, yellow, aubergine and two iron-red enamels outlined in underglaze blue
Glazing (coating)

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.23-1912
Primary reference Number: 93850
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 6 January 2023 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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