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Ruby-back saucer dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in rich famille rose enamels with a seated lady and three children among tables,jars, flowers and objects.
Ruby-back saucer dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in rich enamel colours, green, pink, blue, aubergine, yellow, iron-red, turquoise and black, and gilding. The shallow, rounded sides have a broad everted rim. The interior has a lady seated amongst large jars, stools and two tables laden with objects, watching over three children, one playing with a cat; all within an eight-pointed medallion reserved on a pale blue 'Y'-diaper ground within a pale yellow trellis-diaper band. The rim has a lavender cell-diaper border reserved with three floral vignettes interspersed with dragon medallions in blue enamel and gilding. There is a pale green stylized dragon scroll round the rim. The underside has a lustrous raspberry-pink enamel.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Diameter: 21 cm
Height: 3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Qing Dynasty
Yongzheng (1723-1735)
Circa
1723
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Circa
1735
Decoration composed of enamels ( famille rose)
Accession number: MAR.C.88-1912
Primary reference Number: 77407
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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