IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 98346 accession number: C.17-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 27 June 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bottle. Hard-paste porcelain decorated underglaze with a powder-blue ground and painted in famille verte enamels, and gilding. The slender, pear-shaped body is resting on a low, slightly splayed foot and tapering towards the tall neck encircled by a horizontal bulge beneath the flared rim, which is mounted in silver. The mottled soft blue ground is reserved round the widest part of the body with four barbed quatrefoil vignettes alternately enclosing 'Antiques', sprays of chrysanthemum and prunus entwined with bamboo growing from rockwork, surmounted by two smaller barbed quatrefoil vignettes, one enclosing a flowering spray and the other a flower vase, beneath two fan-shaped cartouches enclosing flowers growing from rockwork on the shoulders; these are all picked out in famille verte enamels and reserved against floral scrollwork in gilding, now largely faded. There is a gilt classic scroll band round the neck. The base is white. object type: Bottle. Hard-paste porcelain with a powder-blue ground, reserves painted in famille verte enamels, and gilt, enclosing 'Antiques', chrysanthemum, prunus, a flowering spray and a flower vase. title: bottle LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Reginald Cory, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/98346 SUBJECTS ------------------- antiques rock flower vase chrysanthemum prunus bamboo antiques rock flower vase chrysanthemum prunus bamboo TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain with an underglaze powder-blue ground, famille verte enamels, and gilt. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1662 - 1722 creation date earliest: 1662 creation date latest: 1722 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: Kangxi Period (1662-1722) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 10.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.7