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Dish, hard-paste porcelain, painted in iron-red enamels, underglaze blue, and gilding with a Chinese lady and an European gentleman in a horse-drawn carriage.
Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted predominantly in iron-red enamels, and gilding with underglaze blue. The shallow flared sides resting on a very low slightly tapered foot and moulded with twelve tulip-like blooms beneath the barbed rim edged in gilding. The interior with a large central medallion depicting a Chinese lady and an European gentleman in a frock coat riding in a simple wooden carriage pulled by two dappled horses, a driver holding a whip seated astride one horse and an attendant walking behind holding a large parasol above the heads of the couple; all in iron-red and gilding within a double line border in underglaze blue. The moulded tulips around the cavetto are outlined in underglaze blue and alternately enclosing sprays of lily and peony in iron-red between single lines in underglaze blue round the rim.
Given by C.D. Rotch
Diameter: 28 cm
Height: 4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1943-03-02) by Rotch, Claude Dickason
Qing Dynasty
18th Century, second quarter#
Circa
1662
-
Circa
1722
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( iron-red)
gold
Underglaze
composed of
cobalt-blue
Description
clear
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red enamels and underglaze blue, and gilding
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: OC.3-1943
Primary reference Number: 77677
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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