IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 99091 accession number: OC.20-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 14 July 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Jardinière. Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, yellow, iron-red, aubergine, turquoise and black enamels. Of lobed quatrefoil section, the upright sides are slightly tapered towards the countersunk base which is smeared with a colourless glaze within the raised unglazed footrim. The four lobes are decorated alternately with rectangular panels of trellis and fret diaper in green and yellow overglaze enamels, centred with slightly recessed upright petal-shaped panels respectively enclosing the Flowers of the Four Seasons, prunus, peony, chrysanthemum and lotus, picked out in iron-red, aubergine, green, turquoise, yellow and cream over the glaze, within yellow and aubergine raised line borders. There is a biscuit border of pendent green triangles on a yellow ground round the base and a green-ground black classic scroll band encircling the outer edge of the everted rim. The top of the rim is decorated with a pale yellow ground lotus scroll on the biscuit, the blooms alternately in aubergine and turquoise flanked by green foliate scrolls within a green line border. The interior is left entirely in the biscuit except for a border round the inner rim of peaches, pomegranates, persimmons and one other fruit, one in each lobe, picked out in green, yellow and turquoise on a smeared brownish ground. object type: Jardinière. Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, yellow, iron-red, aubergine, turquoise and black enamels with flowers emblematic of the Four Seasons. title: jardinière NOTES ----- type: history note value: According to the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue it was purchased at the Kennedy Sale, Christies, 22.6.16, Lot 201. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Leonard Daneham Cunliffe STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/99091 SUBJECTS ------------------- Flowers of the Four Seasons peach pomegranate persimmon Flowers of the Four Seasons peach pomegranate persimmon 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: 27.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.5 CITATIONS -------- The Later Ceramic Wares of China ---