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Vase: C.43-1933

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Current Location: In storage

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Production: Unknown

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Baluster vase. Hard-paste porcelain decorated in soft underglaze blue and in bright iron-red, yellow, green, turquoise, aubergine and black enamels with four figures on a garden terrace, banana palms and mountains.

Baluster vase. Hard-paste porcelain decorated in soft underglaze blue and in bright iron-red, yellow, green, turquoise, aubergine and black enamels. The shouldered body is slightly splayed towards the unglazed base. The sides are painted with a continuous scene of a court figure seated on an elaborate high dais watching a servant proffering a dish to a lady holding a brush, another figure looking on holding a fly-whisk; all on a garden terrace with ornamental rockwork and banana palms, and mountains wreathed in clouds rising in the distance. The short flared neck has a heavily lipped rim encircled by a band of small pointed upright petals in red and green between line borders in underglaze blue.

Legal notes

Valentine-Richards Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 9.2 cm
Height: 13.4 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933-04-05) by Valentine-Richards, A. V., The Rev

Dating

Qing Dynasty
Circa 1640 - Circa 1700

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( bright iron-red, yellow, green, turquoise, aubergine and black) cobalt-blue ( underglaze)
Body composed of glaze

Materials used in production

Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, decorated in soft underglaze blue and in bright iron-red, yellow, green, turquoise, aubergine and black enamels
Glazing (coating)

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.43-1933
Primary reference Number: 75070

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 22 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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