IDENTIFIERS
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id:	99138
accession number:	C.4-1974

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 11 August 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Bowl.  Hard-paste porcelain painted in an enamel palette of iron-red, ochre-yellow, turquoise, opaque blue, two tones of green and black with slight touches of gilding.  The steeply rounded sides rest on a high slightly tapered foot and are gently flared towards the heavily lipped rim.  The exterior has eight large upright lotus petal-shaped panels alternately enclosing songbirds darting beside pomegranate, prunus and peony trees and pairs of cranes near a peach tree, pheasants on rockwork beneath a magnolia, peacocks near chrysanthemum sprays and phoenix beneath a maple.   The border is decorated with stylised overlapping petals in yellow edged in green round the base and a stippled green-ground band with sprays of lotus, chrysanthemum, rose and peony divided by four bird vignettes round the rim.  The interior has a central scene of two butterflies hovering above a flowering iron-red tree peony and the rim is encircled by a border comprised of three different brightly coloured diaper patterns interspersed with six floral vignettes.
object type: Bowl.  Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, ochre-yellow, turquoise, opaque blue, two tones of green and black with slight touches of gilding with birds, butterflies, flowers and trees.
title:	bowl

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/99138





TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1662 - 1722
creation date earliest:	1662
creation date latest:	1722
culture:	Qing Dynasty
culture:	Kangxi Period (1662-1722)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 33.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 15