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Dish. Hard-paste porcelain, painted underglaze in blue, with iron-red and sepia enamels with touches of green, aubergine and pink, and gilt, with a servant holding a parasol above a lady in a garden.
Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted predominantly in an enamel palette of pale iron-red, sepia, and gilding enhanced with touches of green, aubergine and pink with underglaze blue. The shallow rounded sides with broad everted rim resting on a very low tapered foot The interior with a central medallion enclosing a scene of a bearded servant holding a large parasol above an elegantly dressed lady, in a garden amongst sprays of bamboo, palm and chrysanthemum beneath a flowering prunus tree. The rim with a cell-diaper border in underglaze blue reserved with four leaf-shaped vignettes enclosing two butterflies, a beetle and a bat in iron-red, pink and gilding, interspersed with pairs of prunus flowerheads in iron-red and gilding.
C.B. Marlay Bequest
Diameter: 27.5 cm
Height: 4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1905-03-26) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Qing Dynasty
Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
18th Century, second quarter#
Circa
1736
-
Circa
1795
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( iron-red and sepia with touches of green, aubergine and pink)
gold
Description
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: MAR.C.97-1912
Primary reference Number: 77416
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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