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Hard-paste porcelain punch bowl, with decorated underglaze in blue. Circular, with deep sides, standing on a foot rim. On the exterior, two lobed panels, each containing an exotic bird amid flowering plants, reserved on a blue cracked ice ground decorated with reserved prunus flowers.
On the interior, a circular, lobed panel containing a bird perched on a flowering plant, surrounded by a cracked ice and prunus borders. Round the rim is a cracked ice and prunus border between narrow lines.
Given by Miss Whitehurst
Diameter: 29.3 cm
Height: 11.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1836-05-27) by Whitehurst, Miss
18th Century-19th Century
Production date:
circa
AD 1800
Underglaze colour
Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.4-1836
Primary reference Number: 74987
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Punch bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74987 Accessed: 2024-04-20 12:10:51
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Accession Number: C.1503-1928
Accession Number: C.19-1932
Accession Number: C.145-2015
Accession Number: C.266-1961
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