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Factory: Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain dish, painted in enamel colours. The shallow, saucer shaped dish has gently flared sides and lipped rim resting on a high, very slightly tapered, foot.
The underside is finely painted with two boughs of flowering and fruiting peach, the branches in mottled tones of sepia shading almost to black, dotted with tiny spots of lichen in opaque turquoise enamel. The underside has three fruits and the interior five, all in speckled tones of ruby pink shading through to apple and lime green. The blossom in pink and green tinged white. The delicately furled leaves in bright, clear tones of turquoise and green.
The interior with three well painted iron-red bats, and two more are on the underside forming the wufu.
Mark: six character mark of Yongzheng within a double square in underglaze blue.
History note: Unknown before testator
Reginald R. Cory Bequest
Diameter: 20.6 cm
Height: 4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1936) by Cory, Reginald R.
Yongzheng (1723-1735)
Circa
1723
CE
-
1735
CE
Mark composed of underglaze ( blue)
Accession number: OC.30-1936
Primary reference Number: 77666
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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