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Vase: MAR.C.72-1912

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Current Location: In storage

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Vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue and iron-red, yellow, turquoise, black and two green enamels with a phoenix and other birds amid flowering plants

Vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue and iron-red, yellow, turquoise, black and two green enamels. The elegant, slender baluster body is surmounted by a flared neck. The sides are decorated with a continuous scene of a phoenix standing proudly on a large outcrop of jagged rockwork in washed tones of underglaze blue, surrounded by tall sprays of tree peony in iron-red, yellow and turquoise with stems in aubergine outlined in sepia-black and foliage in two tones of green, and a magnolia tree with turquoise flowers encircled by haloes of underglaze blue; a songbird is seated in its branches and three others are in flight overhead. The shoulders are encircled by a cracked-ice border pencilled in underglaze blue and the cut-down neck with iron-red peony and lingzhi fungus growing behind two pierced rocks in underglaze blue.

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C.B. Marlay Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 20.8 cm
Height: 47 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

Qing Dynasty
Circa 1644 - Circa 1722

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( iron-red, yellow, turquoise, black and two green) cobalt-blue ( underglaze)

Materials used in production

Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, painted in underglaze blue and iron-red, yellow, turquoise, black and two green enamels
Glazing (coating)

Identification numbers

Accession number: MAR.C.72-1912
Primary reference Number: 77392

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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