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Teapot and cover, porcelain painted underglaze in blue with iron-red enamel, and gilding with a song-bird and flowering prunus.
Teapot and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue with iron-red enamel, and gilding. The squat, pear-shaped body divided into fourteen lobes separated by single vertical lines in iron-red and painted on either side with a scene of a song-bird perched in the branches of a flowering prunus tree, in underglaze blue with details picked out in gilding The loop handle and upright spout are attached by a detachable metal chain to the globular knop at the centre of the cover, thus holding it in place on the teapot. The cover is lobed to match the teapot and decorated with two sprays of peony in underglaze blue.
History note: The Brangwyn Collecton
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Diameter: 16.2 cm
Height: 11 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1934-09-20) by Brangwyn, Frank
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa
1662
CE
-
Circa
1722
CE
Decoration composed of enamel gold
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.258 & A-1934
Primary reference Number: 73742
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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