IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77697 accession number: OC.37 & A-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 26 November 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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. title: wall cistern NOTES ----- type: history note value: According to the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue, purchased at the Kennedy Sale, Christies, 22.6.16., Lot 198. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Leonard D. Cunliffe bequest creditline: Bequeathed by Leonard Daneham Cunliffe STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77697 TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1662 - 1722 creation date earliest: 1662 creation date latest: 1722 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: Kangxi Period (1662-1722) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 23.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 55.9 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/mid_OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/preview_OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/mid_OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/preview_OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/mid_OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/preview_OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/mid_OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa13/preview_OC_37_20_26_20A_1938_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels