IDENTIFIERS
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id:	77712
accession number:	OC.41 & A-1938

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 14 July 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Censer and cover.  Hard-paste porcelain applied on the biscuit with turquoise, green aubergine, yellow and black glazes.  Of Ming bronze shape, the body is of square section tapered towards the base and suppoorted on a high, slightly splayed foot of ruyi-shaped outline coloured black on the exterior. Each of the four sides is edged with a green-ground key-fret border pencilled in black and decorated with a recessed panel showing strange mythical creatures, mostly composite, rising from amongst swirling incised waves in pale green; the recognizable creatures being a dragon pursuing a 'flaming pearl', a carp and a Buddhist Lion, all picked out in yellow, aubergine and green outlined in black.  The two opposite sides are set with a projecting handle in the form of a downward-gazing phoenix head.  The cover is wood with a jade finial.  The interior is glazed in yellowish-cream.  The mouthrim, footrim and base are left unglazed and with scattered patches burnt orange in the firing.
object type: Censer and cover.  Hard-paste porcelain, of square section applied on the biscuit with turquoise, green aubergine, yellow and black glazes and decorated with mythical creatures and two phoenix head handles, with a wooden cover and jade finial.
title:	censer

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Dated as Ming in the Cunliffe Collection Catalogue and described as acquired at Dickenson (no date given), for £20


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	Leonard D. Cunliffe bequest
creditline: Bequeathed by Leonard Daneham Cunliffe

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77712





CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1662 - 1722
creation date earliest:	1662
creation date latest:	1722
culture:	Qing Dynasty
culture:	Kangxi Period (1662-1722)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 10.7

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.2



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