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'Egg and Spinach' Censer. Hard-paste porcelain, of bombé form, applied on the biscuit with yellow, green aubergine and white glazes and modelled with the Eight Immortals in high relief.
'Egg and Spinach' Censer. Hard-paste porcelain applied on the biscuit with yellow, green aubergine and white glazes. Of bombé form, the censer rests on a splayed foot encircled by an incised green-ground foliate scroll, which is repeated beneath the short flared neck. The exterior is decorated with mottled amber, green, aubergine and white glazes roughly carved to suggest rockwork, and is encircled by a modelled frieze of the Eight Immortals in high relief, each carrying their respective attributes, and picked out alternately in yellow, green and aubergine with white faces. Applied on either side of the body are lion mask handles, each roughly moulded animal head is encircled by a frieze of ringlets. The interior is unglazed apart from a green band beneath the unglazed mouthrim. The footrim and countersunk base are also unglazed.
History note: According to the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue, purchased at Christies, 15.7.18., for £25
Bequeathed by Leonard D. Cunliffe
Diameter: 11.4 cm
Height: 7.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa
1662
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Circa
1722
Body
Decoration
Eight Immortals
Lion Mask Handles
except for the mouthrim, footrim and base
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: OC.40-1938
Primary reference Number: 77710
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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