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Factory: Unknown
Octagonal rice bowl. Hard paste porcelain, thickly potted, painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in red and pale red enamels, and gold in Imari style. Round bowl flaring out to an octagonal shape via a slightly concave (inverted) border. Straight, circular foot and flat glazed base. Decorated inside with a central flower sprig in underglaze blue within a double line circle, and on the rim with a floral scroll border. The outside is painted in pale underglaze blue outline and wash and red edged in gold with two quails in flight and two standing amid millet. The rim was originally edged in gold which has worn leaving a violet residue of colloidal gold.
History note: Probably purchased by the donor in Portobello Market
Given by Miss Irene Finch
Height: 7.2 cm
Width: 14.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1998) by Finch, Irene, Miss
18th Century, Mid-Late
Circa
1750
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( red and pale red)
gold
Corner To Corner
Diameter 15.7 cm
Accession number: C.37-1998
Primary reference Number: 28732
Irene Finch collection: 87/48
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/28732 Accessed: 2024-12-18 13:51:58
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