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Saucer dish. Hard-paste porcelain decorated underglaze with a powder-blue ground, and gilt, with emblems of the 'Hundred Antiques'.
Saucer dish. Hard-paste porcelain decorated underglaze with a powder-blue ground, and gilding. The shallow steeply rounded sides are resting on a low tapered foot and are applied both inside and out with a mottled deep blue glaze. The interior is painted overall in gilding with emblems of the 'Hundred Antiques', including a vase of peonies, a qin, a weiqi board, a scroll, a pair of alms bowls, a jardinière with lingzhi fungus sprigs, a hare perched on an archaic vase, a book and various censers; there is a broad key-fret band beneath the white rim. The base is white. There are traces of gilt emblems on the underside including a 'pearl'.
History note: According to the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue, purchased from Hancock.
Leonard D. Cunliffe Bequest
Diameter: 21.9 cm
Height: 3.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1938) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa
1662
-
Circa
1722
Ground
composed of
cobalt-blue
Decoration
composed of
gold
clear
Glazed
Hard-paste porcelain
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain with an underglaze powder-blue ground and gilding
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: OC.39-1938
Primary reference Number: 77705
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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