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Jar: OC.1-1938

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Current Location: In storage

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Production: Unknown

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Description

Baluster vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, yellow, turquoise, aubergine-brown, black and two green enamels, with traces of underglaze blue, with a peacock and other birds, flowers and foliage reserved on iron-red scale diaper ground.

Baluster vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, yellow, turquoise, aubergine-brown, black and two green enamels with traces of underglaze blue. The shouldered body is gently tapered towards the slightly splayed, unglazed base. The sides are decorated with a continuous garden scene of a peacock perched on an outcrop of pierced green rockwork surrounded by sprays of iron-red flowering tree peony, bamboo and an iron-red camellia, a songbird is perched on one of its branches and two similar birds are in flight nearby, and the sun setting in the sky above. All reserved against a ground of iron-red scale diaper. There is a border of overlapping petals in red, green and yellow round the base and a narrow classic scroll band round the shoulders beneath the short flared neck with lipped rim, encircled by a band of alternating red and green sharp pointed petals. All between line borders in faint underglaze blue.

Notes

History note: Numbered T.114 in the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue, where it is described as purchased at Christies (no date given) and dated Ming

Legal notes

Leonard D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 22.4 cm
Height: 26.4 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham

Dating

Qing Dynasty
Circa 1640 - Circa 1700

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( iron-red, yellow, turquoise, aubergine-brown, black and two green) cobalt-blue ( underglaze)
Body composed of glaze

Materials used in production

Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, painted in iron-red, yellow, turquoise, aubergine-brown, black and two green enamels with traces of underglaze blue

Identification numbers

Accession number: OC.1-1938
Primary reference Number: 77534

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 22 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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