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Dish. Hard-paste porcelain with a powder-blue ground, reserves painted in famille verte enamels, and gilt with a sage and his servant and two further sages beside a lake in landscape.
Dish. Hard-paste porcelain decorated in mottled underglaze blue and painted in famille verte enamels, and gilding. The shallow rounded sides with a broad everted rim resting on a low tapered foot. The interior decorated on the pale, rather smudgy mottled blue ground with a central barbed medallion enclosing a lakeside scene picked out in famille verte enamels, a sage accompanied by his servant carrying a qin crossing an ornamental bridge in the foreground and two further sages conversing on a promontory jutting out behind, a covered boat moored beside a house on the opposite shore and a pagoda rising amongst low pointed hills in the distance; the medallion is encircled by eight floral sprays in gilding and the rim with a gilt border of quatrefoil vignettes enclosing floral sprays interspersed with eight famille verte vignettes alternately enclosing floral clusters behind pierced rockwork and lakeside scenes. The underside with three iron-red peony sprays. The base has two concentric circles in underglaze blue enclosing the mark.
Given by Mrs James Bedford
Diameter: 40.7 cm
Height: 6.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1905-03-25) by Bedford, James, Mrs
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa
1662
-
Circa
1722
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( famille verte)
gold
Description
Ground
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Cobalt-blue
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain with an underglaze powder-blue ground, famille verte enamels, and gilding
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.4-1911
Primary reference Number: 74992
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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