IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 77704 accession number: OC.39 & A-1936 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Jar and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue and iron-red, yellow, two green, turquoise and aubergine enamels enhanced with gilding. The jar is of baluster form and has wide rounded shoulders tapered towards the countersunk base. The sides are decorated in doucai style with a wide frieze of intricate lotus scrollwork; the four large blooms are alternately coloured iron-red and yellow and are flanked by winding thin foliate scrolls bearing multi-coloured buds. There is a border of upright lotus petal panels enclosing florettes round the base. The shoulders have a composite florette border between a band of pendent leaves enclosing angular scrollwork and a border of 'S'-shaped key-fret scrolls. The shoulders are set with two lion mask handles in high relief, painted in iron-red with green manes, suspending gilded rings. The short flared neck has a band of ruyi-heads pendent from the gilt-edged rim. The small domed cover has a border of matching composite floral scrollwork and a collar of gilt ruyi-heads around the spherical knop. The base and interior are glazed in turquoise. object type: Jar and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue and iron-red, yellow, two green, turquoise and aubergine enamels enhanced with gilding with a wide frieze of intricate lotus scrollwork with four large blooms between borders. title: jar LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Reginald Cory Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77704 TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, thrown, with applied handles and painted in underglaze blue and iron-red, yellow, two green, turquoise and aubergine enamels throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1736 - 1795 creation date earliest: 1736 creation date latest: 1795 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: Qianlong Period (1736-1795) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 12.7 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_OC_39_20_26_20A_1936_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels