IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77400 accession number: MAR.C.80-1912 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bottle vase. Hard-paste porcelain with a powder-blue ground, and gilding. The elegantly potted, spherical body resting on a low straight foot and tapering at the shoulders to a tall slender cylindrical neck. The heavily motttled, dark blue ground is overlaid with gilded decoration, now largely faded; the body with three medallions enclosing respectively a pair of deer beneath a pine tree, a group of Precious Objects including ding-shaped and jue-shaped censers and a carp rising from swirling waves, in reserve on an ornate gilded ground of dense chrysanthemum scrollwork with blooms and foliage reserved in powder blue. There is a broad band of thin vertical stripes around the base and a narrow key-fret border around the shoulders. The neck is freely painted with a chilong dragon in flight between broad bands of cell-diaper. The base and interior are white. object type: Bottle vase. Hard-paste porcelain with a powder-blue ground, and gilt painted with three medallions enclosing a pair of deer, a group of Precious Objects and a carp rising from waves, in reserve on an ornate gilded ground of chrysanthem scrollwork. title: bottle 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/77400 SUBJECTS ------------------- Precious Objects waves deer carp dragon pine-tree chrysanthemum foliage Precious Objects waves deer carp dragon pine-tree chrysanthemum foliage TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain with an underglaze powder-blue ground, and gilding 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: 23 dimension: Height units: cm value: 43.5 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/MAR_C_80_1912_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/mid_MAR_C_80_1912_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/MAR_C_80_1912_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/preview_MAR_C_80_1912_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/MAR_C_80_1912_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/mid_MAR_C_80_1912_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/MAR_C_80_1912_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/preview_MAR_C_80_1912_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/MAR_C_80_1912_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/mid_MAR_C_80_1912_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/MAR_C_80_1912_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/preview_MAR_C_80_1912_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/MAR_C_80_1912_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/mid_MAR_C_80_1912_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/MAR_C_80_1912_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/preview_MAR_C_80_1912_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels