IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77393 accession number: MAR.C.73-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 22 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Vase. Hard-paste porcelain decorated in mottled underglaze blue and painted with celadon and copper-red details. Of archaic bronze 'zun' form, the spherical body rests on a high splayed foot and is surmounted by a tall flared neck encircled by a raised line border above the luting point. The vase is applied overall with a rather uneven, mottled bright blue glaze. The main body is reserved with two large oval panels with moulded decoration picked out in underglaze blue, copper-red and celadon, one depicting a dragon swooping down through a blue cloud towards a tiger gazing up from the ground beside a celadon-glazed outcrop of rockwork, the other with a similar dragon descending on a phoenix. The neck is decorated with a copper-red lion mask handle in slightly raised relief on either side beneath the rim. The interior and base are white. The base has two concentric circles in underglaze blue enclosing the mark. object type: Vase. Hard-paste porcelain with a powder-blue ground, and celadon and copper-red details, with lion mask handles and reserved with two large oval panels one depicting a dragon and a tiger the other depicting a dragon and a phoenix. title: vase LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: C. B. Marlay creditline: Bequeathed by C.B. Marlay STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77393 SUBJECTS ------------------- cloud dragon Tiger phoenix lion mask rocks cloud dragon Tiger phoenix lion mask rocks TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain with an underglaze powder-blue ground, celadon and copper-red enamels and lion mask handles in slightly raised relief on either side of the neck beneath the rim. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1662 - 1722 creation date earliest: 1662 creation date latest: 1722 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: Kangxi Period (1662-1722) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 20 dimension: Height units: cm value: 37.7 CITATIONS -------- Outlines of Chinese Symbolism and Art Motives --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/MAR_C_73_1912_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_MAR_C_73_1912_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/MAR_C_73_1912_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_MAR_C_73_1912_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/MAR_C_73_1912_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_MAR_C_73_1912_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/MAR_C_73_1912_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_MAR_C_73_1912_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/MAR_C_73_1912_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_MAR_C_73_1912_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/MAR_C_73_1912_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_MAR_C_73_1912_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/MAR_C_73_1912_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_MAR_C_73_1912_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/MAR_C_73_1912_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_MAR_C_73_1912_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels