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Square dish. Hard-paste, greyish, porcelain, moulded, painted with red, pale red, gold-violet, green and black enamels, and gold. Square with shallow rounded sides and inverted scalloped rim which dips slightly in the middle of each side and is canted across the corners, standing on a circular footring. The rim is edged with a dark brown glaze. The cavetto is moulded with a double row of facets centre and border asymmetrically decorated with branches of flowering chrysanthemum and four fans outlined like the chrysanthemums in red; the violet background water outlined in gold and the green leaves with veins precisely delineated in black. The back is undecorated but has a single ring of facets. Five tiny spur marks.
History note: Pat Butt, Portobello Market, from whom purchased by the donor
Given by Miss Irene Finch
Height: 4.2 cm
Width: 18.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1998-10-12) by Finch, Irene, Miss
18th Century, Late
Circa
1770
-
1800
Japan, Arita
Decoration composed of enamels ( iron-red, pale red, gold-violet, green and black) gold
Moulding : Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, painted with iron-red, pale red, gold-violet, green and black enamels, and gold
Accession number: C.49-1998
Primary reference Number: 28789
Irene Finch collection: 94/77
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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