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Maker: Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain 'Mandarin Palette' jug and cover, painted predominantly in iron-red and pink enamels with gilding, one of a pair. With a large pear shaped body and 'sparrow beak' spout, decorated on the front with a frieze of figures with only their upper halves depicted, on the elaborately painted terrace of a balconied house. Showing a lady to one side, holding a small shoe and gesturing to another lady holding a nest of red boxes; on the other side is a group of ladies cutting fabric on a table while a small boy peers over the edge. The scene is enclosed within a medallion of lappet outline edged in black and reserved against a ground of intricate floral scrollwork in gilding. A similarly shaped medallion is beneath the heavy scroll handle showing a songbird on a branch of flowering peony. A gilt key-fret border is round the rim.
The cover has a double gourd vase and a fan tied with orange ribbon
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by Mrs D. Bushby
Diameter: 27 cm
Height: 37.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1970) by Bushby, Dorothy, Mrs
Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
1736
CE
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1795
CE
Enamels
Gilt
Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.3 & A-1970
Primary reference Number: 74295
C.3 & A-1970
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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