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Saucer dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in an enamel palette of two iron-reds, two greens, turquoise, pale yellow and aubergine outlined in sepia. The well rounded sides have an out-curved rim resting on a low tapered foot. The interior is boldy decorated with an overall design of a kingfisher diving down towards a large clump of lotus with six open blooms, flanked by frilly-edged leaves and tall water grasses, rising from a pond indicated by iron-red dashes, with two mandarin ducks swimming in the foreground. The base has two concentric circles in underglaze blue enclosing the mark.
Production Place: China (country)
Dimensions: diameter: (whole): 39 cm
Period : Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Date: circa 1662 to 1722

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Description: Saucer dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in an enamel palette of two iron-reds, two greens, turquoise, pale yellow and aubergine outlined in sepia with a kingfisher in flight by a lotus pond with two mandarin ducks swimming. Saucer dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in an enamel palette of two iron-reds, two greens, turquoise, pale yellow and aubergine outlined in sepia. The well rounded sides have an out-curved rim resting on a low tapered foot. The interior is boldy decorated with an overall design of a kingfisher diving down towards a large clump of lotus with six open blooms, flanked by frilly-edged leaves and tall water grasses, rising from a pond indicated by iron-red dashes, with two mandarin ducks swimming in the foreground. The base has two concentric circles in underglaze blue enclosing the mark. Production Place: China (country) Dimensions: diameter: (whole): 39 cm Period : Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), Kangxi Period (1662-1722) Date: circa 1662 to 1722

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Accession Number: MAR.C.83-1912
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
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Image width: 760 pixels
Processed with: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
Filesize: 97.63kB

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