IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77522 accession number: OC.11-1936 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 3 March 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before testator LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Reginald R. Cory Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77522 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird peach tree bird peach tree 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: 14.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.4 CITATIONS -------- The Later Ceramic Wares of China Transaction of the Oriental Ceramic Society For the Imperial Court--Qing Porcelain from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art Ceramic Art of the World—Ch’ing Dynasty --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_11_1936_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/mid_OC_11_1936_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_11_1936_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/preview_OC_11_1936_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_11_1936_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/mid_OC_11_1936_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_11_1936_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/preview_OC_11_1936_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels