IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 99141 accession number: C.21-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 17 October 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Libation Cup (one of a pair). Hard-paste porcelain painted on the biscuit in green, aubergine, yellow, creamy white and black. Of archaic bronze yi form, the body is of oval section with upright sides which are slightly flared towards the rim. The broad spout is set opposite the small tabbed angular loop handle which is flanked by two small archaic dragons with knobbly spines in full relief, coloured green and abergine; there are two similar dragons in relief clambering upwards and downwards beneath the spout. The body is decorated on the exterior with a highly stylised green taotie mask on either side beneath a frieze of cream-coloured prunus flowerheads; all on a yellow ground. The interior has an aubergine trellis border round the rim reserved with three prunus vignettes and a taotie mask over the spout, the remainder is left in the biscuit and smeared with a colourless glaze. object type: Libation Cup (one of a pair). Hard-paste porcelain, oval, painted on the biscuit in green, aubergine, yellow, creamy white and black with taotie masks and prunus and applied with four dragons. title: libation cup NOTES ----- type: history note value: S.M. Franck and Co., 25 Camomile Street, E.C., from whom purchased by the National Art Collections Fund. Originally from the collection of Lt. Col. Croft Lyons. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the National Arts Collection Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/99141 TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain painted on the biscuit in green, aubergine, yellow, creamy white and black enamels painting 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: 13.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.3 CITATIONS -------- The George Eumorfopoulous Collection: Catalogue of the Chinese, Corean, and Persian Pottery and Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_21_1912.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_21_1912.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_21_1912.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_21_1912.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_20_20_26_2021_1912.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_20_20_26_2021_1912.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_20_20_26_2021_1912.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_20_20_26_2021_1912.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/648/615/large_C_21_1912_200808_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 683 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/648/615/mid_C_21_1912_200808_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/648/615/C_21_1912_200808_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 4096 pixels width: 6144 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/648/615/preview_C_21_1912_200808_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels