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Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, iron-red, yellow, grey, blue and black enamels, with gilding. The dish has shallow, fluted sides and everted, scallopped rim. The interior well is painted with a central, scalloped medallion showing birds and insects in flight around flowering branches issuing from jagged rocks. The fluted sides are decorated with two bands of leaning, overlapping lotus petals containing flowering sprays. The underside is incised with leaning, overlapping lotus petals and painted with three sprays of iron-red and yellow flowers on leafy branches.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 27.4.1933, Stephen D. Winkworth Collection, for £38.0s.0d, Lot 520; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Diameter: 35.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
17th Century-18th Century#
Circa
1662
-
1722
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( famille verte)
Sides
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, yellow, blue, grey and black enamels, with incised decoration on the underside, and fluted sides
Inscription present: oval, white with black border
Inscription present: rectangular green with Co
Accession number: C.673-1991
Primary reference Number: 21556
Old object number: CHICER/214
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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