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Vase: OC.33-1938

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Current Location: In storage

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Production: Unknown

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Description

Hexagonal vase. Hard-paste porcelain, moulded in relief with members of the 'Hundred Antiques', and painted in iron-red, blue, yellow, turquoise and aubergine enamels and two tones of green with details in black and gilding.

Hexagonal vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, blue, yellow, turquoise and aubergine enamels and two tones of green with details in black and gilding. The shouldered body is tapered towards the splayed base and surmounted by a widely flared neck with a galleried rim, all of hexaonal section. Each of the six sides is decorated with several members of the 'Hundred Antiques' moulded in high relief and picked out in a variety of colours enhanced with gilding, beneath a frieze of ruyi outline enclosing cranes, bats and peaches on a green whorl ground pendent from the angled shoulders, encircled by six stippled green-ground panels containing different flowering sprays. The base is enclircled by similar, though more stylised, floral panels. The neck has an 'Antique' in high relief on each of its six facets above a raised dark blue-ground key-fret band and beneath a green zig-zag border round the exterior of the rim.

Notes

History note: The Cunliffe Collection Catalogue merely records that the piece was purchased from Dickenson, giving no date.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Leonard Daneham Cunliffe

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 22.7 cm
Height: 45.6 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

Qing Dynasty
18th Century
Circa 1700 - Circa 1800

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( iron red, blue, yellow, turquoise, aubergine, two tones of green and black) gold

Materials used in production

Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Glazing (coating)

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: T. 91 L.D.C.
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: OC.33-1938
Primary reference Number: 77685
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 14 July 2016 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

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

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