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Wall cistern and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in yellow, red, green, tuquoise, blue, aubergine and black enamels, and gilding, with figures on a terrace.
Wall cistern and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in a vivid enamel palette of yellow, red, green, tuquoise, blue, aubergine and black with details in gilding. The full pear-shaped body is centred above the foot with a protruding yellow taotie mask ringed with blue curls, the teeth are bared in a ferocious snarl and the aubergine forehead bears the character 'wang' in gilding. The cistern is painted with three ladies and a child standing on the balustraded terrace of a small pavilion, with a blue-robed figue looking on from the garden of a larger green building in the background; all amongst large vases filled with chrysanthemums and scattered precious objects The foot is encircled by a green-ground zig-zag florette border and the flared neck has a broad band of beaded ruyi-heads pendent from a green and yellow trellis-diaper border infillled with red florettes. The conical cover has three domed tiers and is decorated with leaf and floral borders divided by zig-zag bands pencilled in iron-red. The white-glazed back is pierced with a hole for suspension which is masked by a moulded chrysanthemum flowerhead on the interior.
History note: According to the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue, purchased at the Kennedy Sale, Christies, 22.6.16., Lot 198.
Bequeathed by Leonard Daneham Cunliffe
Diameter: 23.7 cm
Height: 55.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa
1662
CE
-
Circa
1722
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( yellow, red, green, tuquoise, blue, aubergine and black)
gold
Lower Body
Accession number: OC.37 & A-1938
Primary reference Number: 77697
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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