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Production: Jiangxi Ciye Gongsi
Plate. Hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue. Circular with sloping rim, shallow curved sides, and slightly convex centre, standing on a footring. Decorated on the front with two tigers disputing a dead deer, with rocks and grass in the foreground and long grass behind the tigers, whose bodies and tails curve round the plate. Two narrow blue concentric circles round the edge. On the reverse, there are two narrow concentric circles round the mark, one round the outer edge of the footring and two round the outer edge. The glaze has a few speckles on the front mainly on the white area between the tigers.
Given by Peter Crabbe and Roger Seaton Robinson
Diameter: 23.6 cm
Height: 3.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1999) by Crabbe, Peter and Seaton Robinson, Roger
20th Century, Early
Production date:
AD 1908
Made by the Jiangxi Porcelain Company
Glaze
composed of
glaze
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
Inscription present: oval printed in black with an oval scene with on the right part of a bespectacled man's head and shoulders, surrounded by the words 'No' 119' (in red biro) 'VIRTUTIS MR GLORIA MERCES'
Inscription present: six character mark Jianxi Ciye Gongshi (Jianxi Porcelain Company)
Accession number: C.16-1999
Primary reference Number: 28532
Entry form number: 112
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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