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Bowl: OC.4A-1938

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Current Location: Gallery 32 (Rothschild)

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Maker: Unknown

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Description

The bowl has an English silver gilt rim and straps. The outside shows a frieze of horses at the 'flying gallop', with flowering bushes below. The inside of the bowl depicts a central landscape panel, with Buddhist wheels as a border, and a frieze landscape at the edge.
On the inside of the silver gilt rim there is a coat of arms.

The bowl has a mark written in Chinese, and there are two marks on the exterior of the rim mount.

Notes

History note: There is a possibility that this bowl was one sold at Sotheby's on the 2nd August 1922

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Leonard Daneham Cunliffe

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 23.8 cm
Height: 13.3 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham

Dating

Ming Dynasty
1560 - 1600

Components of the work

Rim composed of silver gilt

Materials used in production

Porcelain

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Identification numbers

Accession number: OC.4A-1938
Primary reference Number: 167085

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 22 April 2024

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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