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Factory: Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain brush pot, painted in enamels and gilding. The pot has straight, upright sides shaped in the form of two overlapping diamonds to give four wide vertical surfaces and four narrow ones. The wider sides are painted respectively with a pheasant perched on an outcrop of rockwork amongst sprays of flowering tree peony, a beetle among day lily and dianthus blooms, an aubergine butterfly hovering above chrysanthemum sprays, and a pale pink butterfly in flight near three poppies.
Each of the narrower sides with a fourteen character poem written in black, and bearing the Qianlong seal mark in iron-red. All edged with a raised pale iron-red border decorated with a gilt scroll. The interior and base are glazed in turquoise.
Seal mark of Qianlong in underglaze blue
History note: Unknown before testator
Reginald R. Cory Bequest
Height: 10.2 cm
Width: 13.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1936) by Cory, Reginald R.
Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
Circa
1736
CE
-
1795
CE
Seal Mark
composed of
underglaze colour
( blue)
Border
composed of
gilt
Interior, Base
composed of
glaze
Accession number: OC.37-1936
Primary reference Number: 77698
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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