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Dish: C.64-1911

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Current Location: In storage

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Production: Unknown

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Description

Large stoneware dish with a thick, light, green glassy glaze. The body is thick with a bumpy outside. It is decorated with freely incised peonies and leaves round inside border. In the centre there is an incised diaper pattern on a square plan.
The base is convex and glazed, with an unglazed ring burnt orange brown. The glazed foot is short, thick, and rounded.

Legal notes

Presented by Lt. Col. Croft Lyons, through the National Art-Collections Fund, 1905

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 44 cm
Height: 8.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1905) by Lyons, George Babington Croft

Components of the work

Peonies
Ring

Materials used in production

Celadon glaze
Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Glazing

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.64-1911
Primary reference Number: 75725

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 13 May 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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