IDENTIFIERS
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id:	140071
accession number:	AAL.2 & A-2000

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 26 November 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Water ewer and stopper made from hard paste porcelain, thrown and moudled, and painted overglaze in blue, bluish-green, red, yellowish-brown, and black enamels in Kakiemon style.  
The ewer stands on a footring.  It has a globular body with facetted sides, a tall cylindrical neck with projecting rim, a tall slightly curved spout, and an S-shaped handle with an upper dragon's head terminal.  One side of the body is decorated with a large rock with branches of flowers and foliage on each side of it.  The other side has a smaller rock and one branch of flowers and foliage on the right and two sprigs on the left.
The domed stopper is striped in red and has reversed gadrooning radiating from a pierced ball finial, the top of which is also red.
The base has 'Kakiemon' in running script, in undeglaze in blue.
title:	ewer

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: On loan from Sir John Boyd

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/140071





TECHNIQUES
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overglaze
TECHNIQUES
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moulding
TECHNIQUES
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facetting
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thrown
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enamelling

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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CREATORS
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maker: Sakaida Kakiemon XIV

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 22.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 15.8