IDENTIFIERS
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id:	131108
accession number:	OC.31-1936

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 12 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Hard-paste porcelain bowl painted in enamel colours. The steep rounded sides rest on a high, very slightly tapered foot and gently flare beneath the lipped rim. The exterior is painted with two fruiting and flowering branches of peach extending over the rim to encompass the interior. One branch in delicately shade tones of olive brown, the other in lavender grey outlined in sepia, both dotted with pale blue spots of lichen. The half open, and fully open, flowers are in pale pink with deeper rose coloured undersides and in white, tinged with pale green, the stamen in yellow and the foliage in finely controlled shades of turquoise and pale green. 
The exterior with four large fruits in lime-green shading to puce, with three vigorously painted iron-red bats hovering in flight nearby. The interior with two further fruits and two bats, together with those on the exterior forming the wufu.
Seal mark of Qianlong in underglaze blue.
title:	bowl

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before testator


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
creditline: Reginald R. Cory Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/131108





TECHNIQUES
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enamelling

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1736 - 1795
creation date earliest:	1736
creation date latest:	1795
culture:	Qianlong Period (1736-1795)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 18.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 8.2