Chinese bottle painted with peach trees

An image of Bottle/Vase. Famille rose. The massively potted spherical body rests on a countersunk base, with shoulders tapered towards the tall, gently flared neck. Superbly painted with an overall design of two flowering and fruiting peach trees. The grey-blue and brown trunks rise side by side from the base with branches extending round the body and up the neck, the large fruits are painted in dark rose-pink shading to lime-green, the blossom is pale pink and in white tinged with green and pink with yellow stamens, the lush foliage in turquoise and lime-green. Seal mark of Qianlong in underglaze blue. Hard-paste porcelain, painted with enamels, height 51.4 cm, diameter 38.2 cm. Qianlong Period (1736-1795). Chinese.

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Bottle/Vase. Famille rose. The massively potted spherical body rests on a countersunk base, with shoulders tapered towards the tall, gently flared neck. Superbly painted with an overall design of two flowering and fruiting peach trees. The grey-blue and brown trunks rise side by side from the base with branches extending round the body and up the neck, the large fruits are painted in dark rose-pink shading to lime-green, the blossom is pale pink and in white tinged with green and pink with yellow stamens, the lush foliage in turquoise and lime-green. Seal mark of Qianlong in underglaze blue. Hard-paste porcelain, painted with enamels, height 51.4 cm, diameter 38.2 cm. Qianlong Period (1736-1795). Chinese.

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Accession Number: OC.40-1936
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Kate Young
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 541.34kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1

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18th Century blossom branches Chinese famille rose floral flowers fruits hard-paste porcelain painted peach blossom peach tree peaches porcelain Qianlong Dynasty spray vase white

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