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Production: Unknown
Circular hard-paste porcelain fish bowl, painted underglaze in blue and touched with brown. With deep sides, curving upwards and outwards from the base, contracting slightly below, and then widening at the rim. Painted with a bird perched in the branches of a flowering tree, a detached spray of leaves and an insect. With a chain border below the rim.
Four character Qangxi mark, but of 19th century date
Worn rim, hair crack, and discoloured brown in the base.
Given by Miss Doris Ormerod
Diameter: 18.4 cm
Height: 14.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1984) by Ormerod, Doris, Miss
19th Century
1800
-
1899
Underglaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.9-1984
Primary reference Number: 76378
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Fish bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76378 Accessed: 2024-12-18 21:19:58
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