Skip to main content

Plate: OC.2-1943

An image of Plate
View image details Mirador icon - view image Mirador deep zoom IIIF Manifest IIIF Manifest Slow looking

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Alternative views

An image of Plate
An image of Plate
An image of Plate
An image of Plate
An image of Plate
View all 6 images attached
Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Unknown

Entities

Categories

Description

Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, decorated with asters in petal shaped panels at the border, enclosing five similar flower heads amongst a dense whorled pattern at the centre. There are peculiar scroll designs on the back in a very stylised manner. There is an encircled leaf mark on the base.
The design was especially popular in the Middle East

Legal notes

Given by Claude Dickason Rotch

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 27.2 cm
Height: 3.8 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1943-03-02) by Rotch, Claude Dickason

Dating

17th Century
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
1600 CE - 1699 CE

Materials used in production

blue Underglaze colour
Hard-paste porcelain

Identification numbers

Accession number: OC.2-1943
Primary reference Number: 77640

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 10 November 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Plate" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/77640 Accessed: 2025-12-05 12:14:15

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/77640 |title=Plate |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-05 12:14:15|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-77640

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/large_OC_2_1943_1_201405_jas244_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Plate"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Plate</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...

University of Cambridge Museums logo
Cambridge City Council logo
Arts Council England Logo
Research England logo