IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77534 accession number: OC.1-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 4 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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. title: jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Numbered T.114 in the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue, where it is described as purchased at Christies (no date given) and dated Ming LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Leonard D. Cunliffe bequest creditline: Leonard D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77534 TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, thrown, painted in iron-red, yellow, turquoise, aubergine-brown, black and two green enamels with traces of underglaze blue throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1640 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1640 creation date latest: 1700 culture: Qing Dynasty CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 22.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.4 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/OC_1_1938_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_OC_1_1938_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/OC_1_1938_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_OC_1_1938_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/OC_1_1938_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_OC_1_1938_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/OC_1_1938_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_OC_1_1938_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/OC_1_1938_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_OC_1_1938_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/OC_1_1938_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_OC_1_1938_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/OC_1_1938_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_OC_1_1938_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/OC_1_1938_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_OC_1_1938_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels