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Birthday Plate
Factory: Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, aubergine and three green enamels of soft washed tones with a bird perched on the branch of a peach tree.
Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, aubergine and three green enamels of soft washed tones. The small dish has shallow rounded sides springing from a low slightly tapered foot and rising to a narrow flattened rim. The interior well is painted with a naturalistic design of a bird perched on the slender branch of a fruiting peach tree. The rim is encircled with a cell-diaper band in pale iron-red reserved with four cartouches enclosing the characters 'wan shou wu qiang' - 'A myriad longevities without end', the imperial birthday greeting - interspersed with pairs of flowrheads.
History note: Unknown before testator
Reginald R. Cory Bequest
Diameter: 14.3 cm
Height: 2.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1936) by Cory, Reginald R.
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa
1662
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Circa
1722
Decoration composed of enamels ( iron-red, aubergine and three green)
Accession number: OC.11-1936
Primary reference Number: 77522
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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