IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71362 accession number: C.11-1978 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 26 November 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in an enamel palette of two greens, turquoise, iron-red, aubergine, yellow, and black enhanced with gilding. The heavily potted, widely flared sides, with a lipped rim, are resting on a high foot of thick, wedge-shaped section. The interior is decorated in anhua technique with an overall design of a large four-clawed dragon shown full-face with one hand outstretched to grasp a 'flaming pearl' among scattered flame scrolls. The anhua design is overpainted with a large central medallion showing a pheasant perched on an outcrop of stacked rockwork flanked by flowering tree peony in iron-red and yellow and a prunus tree in blossom. It is encircled round the well by eight spirally-painted panels showing clusters of iron-red flowering branches growing behind pierced rockwork. Round the rim is a narrow border of detached flowering sprays interspersed with insects. The underside is also decorated in anhua with two dragons running in pursuit of 'pearls' beneath scattered sprays. object type: Dish. Hard-paste porcelain, carved with anhua dragons and overpainted in two greens, turquoise, iron-red, aubergine, yellow, and black enhanced with gilding with a pheasant on rockwork. title: dish LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71362 TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1662 - 1722 creation date earliest: 1662 creation date latest: 1722 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: Kangxi Period (1662-1722) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 46.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.2 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_11_1978_1_201109_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 848 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_c_11_1978_1_201109_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 604 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_11_1978_1_201109_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 848 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_c_11_1978_1_201109_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 302 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_11_1978_2_201109_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 1023 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_c_11_1978_2_201109_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 501 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/c_11_1978_2_201109_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 1023 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_c_11_1978_2_201109_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 250 pixels width: 250 pixels