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Brush pot. Hard-paste porcelain painted on the biscuit in green, turquoise, aubergine, yellow, black and opaque blue enamels with a continuous scene of figures in a rocky landscape.
Brush pot. Hard-paste porcelain delicately painted on the biscuit in green, turquoise, aubergine, yellow, black and opaque blue enamels. The cylindrical sides are decorated with a continuous scene of an official carrying a tasselled banner and making a dismissive gesture at an official, who is flanked by two attendants, one holding a yellow belt and the other a heap of clothing. They are standing in a rocky landscape with two goats to one side near a grove of trees growing from jagged rockwork. The biscuit surface is applied overall with a thin translucent glaze. The interior is glazed in white and the base has a small glazed recessed centre surrounded by a wide unglazed circle within a glazed band round the rim.
History note: Described in the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue as purchased from Dickenson for £20
Bequeathed by Leonard Daneham Cunliffe
Diameter: 17.8 cm
Height: 15.6 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 ( green, turquoise, aubergine, yellow, black and opaque blue)
except for the base round the small, recessed centre
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain delicately painted on the biscuit in green, turquoise, aubergine, yellow, black and opaque blue enamels
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: OC.19-1938
Primary reference Number: 77627
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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