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Tureen and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in a bright enamel palette of iron-red, blue, two greens, turquoise, yellow, aubergine and black enhanced with gilding.
Tureen and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in a bright enamel palette of iron-red, blue, two greens, turquoise, yellow, aubergine and black enhanced with gilding. Of circular form, the tureen is of shallow, slightly bombé form; the exterior is decorated with a cluster of flowering tree peony and chrysanthemum on either side divided by demi-chrysanthemum handles in iron-red beneath a stippled green-ground border of floral scrollwork round the rim reserved with four fish vignettes. The interior has a large medallion showing a bird perched on a fruiting and flowering pomegranate tree, encircled round the well by eight tasseled Precious Objects, including the artemesia leaf, cash and musical stone, hanging on beaded ropes from a green brocade-diaper boarder round the rim. The gently domed cover has a matching fish-vignette band round the rim and two similar floral clusters divided by pheasants in flight. The knop is in the form of a rooster with iron-red feather markings standing astride peirced rockwork in green, yellow and aubergine.
History note: The Cunliffe Collection Catalogue records this piece as possibly purchased at Christies, 2.5.16.
Diameter: 31.8 cm
Height: 19.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa
1662
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Circa
1722
Decoration composed of enamels ( iron-red, blue, two greens, turquoise, yellow aubergine and black) gold
Accession number: OC.18 & A-1938
Primary reference Number: 77618
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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