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Famille verte teabolw and saucer
Production: Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain teabowl and saucer, painted predominantly in blue enamels with gilding. The saucer is decorated with a lady seated on a pierced rockwork chair with a high ledge rising behind, set with a gilt censer and a vase of peonies. A small boy is in the forground playing with a black and white spotted cat; all beanth a maple tree in a gilt fenced garden. The scene is enclosed within a medallion edged with gilt dragon and foliate scrolls reserved on a pale blue 'Y'-diaper ground.
The bowl with a similar scene on the exterior, and matching 'Y'-diaper band round the rim of the iterior with a peony at the centre
Reginald R. Cory Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1936) by Cory, Reginald R.
Yongzheng (1723-1735)
Circa
1723
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Circa
1735
Saucer
Diameter 13.5 cm
Height 2.2 cm
Bowl
Diameter 8.4 cm
Height 4.3 cm
Enamels
Gilt
Hard-paste porcelain
Enamelling
: Hard-paste porcelain painted in bright enamel colours, pink, aubergine, green, yellow, turquoise, blue and black; gilt
Gilding
Accession number: OC.32 & A-1936
Primary reference Number: 77679
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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