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Bell Beaker: OC.29-1938

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Current Location: In storage

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Beaker. Hard-paste porcelain painted in black, green, aubergine, yellow and white enamels with four panels of flowering trees and chrysanthemum.

Beaker. Hard-paste porcelain painted in black, green, aubergine, yellow and white enamels The tall, gently flared sides are standing on a small, straight foot. The exterior has four upright lotus-petal shaped panels enclosing three trees in blossom and sprays of chrysanthemum in aubergine, green, yellow and white reserved against a lustrous black ground; a band of small white and aubergine upright petals encircles the base and there is a green cracked-ice border strewn with prunus florettes beneath the rim. The interior is pencilled in black with a floral sprig at the centre and a scroll border round the rim. The decoration is all on the biscuit beneath a smeared colourless glaze.

Notes

History note: This piece does not have a number label but is probably no T.112, described in the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue as purchased at Dickenson (no date given) for £100 together with T.111.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Leonard Daneham Cunliffe

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 7.5 cm
Height: 7 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( black, green, aubergine, yellow and white)

Materials used in production

Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing (coating)

Identification numbers

Accession number: OC.29-1938
Primary reference Number: 77664
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 14 July 2016 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

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

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