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Plate: C.51-1933

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

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Description

Hard-paste porcelain plate, painted in enamel colours. The centre is decorated with a ribbon tied bouquet of flowers, predominantly coloured a dark raspberry pink. The everted rim with six barbed lozenge shaped vignettes of pink lotus flowers, interspersed with barbed quatrefoil medallions enclosing bianco-sopra-bianco florettes, reserved against alternating fish-roe, brocade, whorl and cracked-ice borders in pink and sepia.

Legal notes

A. V. Valentine Richards Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 22.7 cm
Height: 2.6 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
1736 - 1795

School or Style

famille rose

Materials used in production

colours Enamel
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Painting

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.51-1933
Primary reference Number: 75349
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 12 July 2016 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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