Enamelled dish
Maker: Unknown
Enamelled white dish, decorated with flowers which represent the seasons. The dish is oval with a narrow rim, deep and slightly sloping sides and a flat central area, which is supported on the underside by four strips of copper without enamel.
Decorated in the middle with an arrangement of sprays of roses and chrysanthemums and a stem of seeding grass, surrounded by a narrow pale border with darker blue foliated scrolls and flowerheads over it.
On the sides there are a pale and dark pink diaper pattern, which is interrupted by four oblong shaped panels containing respectively: two rose sprays, a prunus branch. a spray of two daisies, and a spray of pinks.
On the rim there are black foliated scrolls and flowerheads embellished with gilding. The back is decorated with a central spray and two pink flowers, the sides have a pink ground decorated in darker pink with foliated scrolls and flowerheads, and the underside of the rim is pale green
Bequeathed by Reginald Cory
Height: 2.4 cm
Length: 27.1 cm
Width: 18.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1936) by Cory, Reginald R.
Qing Dynasty
Circa
1736
-
Circa
1795
Back
composed of
ground colour
Flowerheads
composed of
gilt
Strips
composed of
copper
Enamelling
: Copper enamelled and gilt
Gilding
Accession number: OC.47-1936
Primary reference Number: 201989
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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