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Jar. Hard-paste porcelain painted in yellow, iron-red, aubergine, black and two green enamels and inky-grey underglaze blue with fruiting persimmon and pomegranate branches reserved on an iron-red scale diaper ground.
Jar. Hard-paste porcelain painted in yellow, iron-red, aubergine, black and two green enamels and inky-grey underglaze blue. The squat shouldered body is gently tapered towards the slightly concave, unglazed base. The sides are decorated with a continuous frieze showing fruiting branches of pomegranate, dappled in red, yellow and green, and persimmons in pale yellow and lime-green; divided by outcrops of pierced ornamental rockwork in underglaze blue. All reserved against a ground of iron-red scale diaper. There is a classic foliate scroll in iron-red encirciling the shoulders beneath the short, flared neck which is ringed with a frieze of small pointed leaves alternately coloured red, green and blue pendent from the lipped rim. The shoulders are set on either side with a metal handle; each handle is attached by two screws through pierced holes in the body.
History note: Possibly number T.121 in the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue, which is described as 'Famille-verte rice jar, Ming', measured six and a quarter inches by seven inches, and said to have been purchased at Christies
Leonard D. Cunliffe Bequest
Diameter: 19.4 cm
Height: 15.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
Qing Dynasty
Circa
1640
-
Circa
1700
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
( underglaze)
enamels
( yellow, iron-red, aubergine, black and two green)
Body
composed of
glazed
Handles And Screws
composed of
metal
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, painted in yellow, iron-red, aubergine, black and two green enamels and inky-grey underglaze blue with metal handles
Accession number: OC.2-1938
Primary reference Number: 77636
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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