Maker: Unknown
The vase is a heavily potted baluster vase, with a cylindrical neck slightly everted at the mouth, with rounded sloping shoulder tapered to low tapered footrim with a flat, recessed glazed base. It is made from hard paste porcelain, painted in underglaze blue, with red, black, apricot, pink, brown, and turquoise enamels, and gilding.
The vase is decorated all over in Imari style; the neck has three panels painted in iron red with gilded lotus reserved on a blue ground. The shoulder has two phoenix (ho-ho) amid cloud scrolls, lotus and scrolling foliage. The body has three lotus panels, one containing two cranes by water with bamboo and prunus, one with kylin (shishi), butterfly and flowering lotus, and the third has a vulture in rocky landscape with iron red, apricot, and gilded scrolling flower heads on a blue ground between the panels.
There is a band of classic scroll round the foot rim, above which is repeated in the border around the neck.
The domed cover is similarly decorated all over in Imari style, with two phoenix amid cloud scrolls and lotus with a large Buddhist lion finial.
There is a crack on the nexk, with a large star crack across the base. The lion knop on the cover has been restored, and a large chip to the rim has been restuck. There is a chip to the gilding on the rim.
Bequeathed by Mrs M. E. Webb
Diameter: 32 cm
Height: 62.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1996) by Webb, M. E., Mrs
Underglaze colour
Gilt
Enamel
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Glazing
Enamelling
Gilding
Underglaze
Accession number: C.14 & A-1996
Primary reference Number: 138638
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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