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Factory: Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain saucer dish, painted in enamel colours. The shallow, rounded sides resting on a low, slightly tapered foot and divided into twenty-four chrysanthemum petal lobes beneath the scalloped rim. The interior is finely painted with a large tree peony medallion, composed of a single gnarled branch picked out in sepia with long pale pink buds, intertwined with flowering sprays. One is in open bloom in shaded tones of iron red, and the other in white tinged with pink, with yellow stamen, the foliage in shaded tones of turquoise and lime-green.
Mark: Six character mark of Yongzheng within a double circle in underglaze blue.
History note: Unknwon before testator
Reginald R. Cory Bequest
Diameter: 16.1 cm
Height: 3.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1936) by Cory, Reginald R.
Yongzheng (1723-1735)
Circa
1728
CE
-
1735
CE
Mark composed of underglaze ( blue)
Accession number: OC.18-1936
Primary reference Number: 77621
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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