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Square dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in famille rose enamels, green, yellow, iron-red, black, brown, on a rose ground. The steep, curved sides with flaring rim springing from a low foot with flat, recessed base. The interior is decorated with a central quatrefoil cartouche enclosing a European figure in landscape, holding a lantern, surrounded by four smaller quatrefoil cartouches each enclosing a seated European figure in a landscape, reserved on a rose ground painted in deeper rose with scrolling flower heads. Gilt rim, the underside is covered in a turquoise glaze.
History note: 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: 17 cm
Height: 3.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
18th Century
After
1736
-
Circa
1795
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( famille rose)
Rim
composed of
gilt
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain painted in famille rose enamels, green, yellow, iron-red, black, brown, on a rose ground, gilded rim
Inscription present: square seal mark in underglaze-blue
Inscription present: round, serrated, white label
Accession number: C.686-1991
Primary reference Number: 21623
Old object number: CHICER/188
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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