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Wine pot and cover. Hard-paste porcelain, of hexagonal section with openwork panels and perforated cover, painted in black, yellow, iron-red, turquoise, green, blue and aubergine enamels with the 'Three Friends'.
Wine pot and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in black, yellow, iron-red, turquoise, green, blue and aubergine enamels. The baluster body is of hexagonal section decorated on each of the six sides with a moulded petal-shaped panel in high relief pierced to reveal the biscuit body beneath. The panels are arranged in two groups of three respectively depicting pine, prunus and bamboo, the Three Friends, picked out in bright red, green and aubergine, reserved against the lustrous black ground. A moulded band of upright red and green lotus petals spring from a green-ground scroll border round the base. The shoulders are decorated with a green-ground lotus scroll. The loop handle is moulded in the form of a yellow fish with an aubergine head, set opposite the yellow hexagonal spout which springs from an aubergine dragon's head. The upright neck has ruyi-heads reserved against alternating fish-roe and stippled grounds. The hexagonal cover is pierced with prunus branches encircling the blue prunus flowerhead knop.
History note: Mrs W.M. McClean. Sold at Sotheby's 24th July 1942, Lot 31
Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam with the aid of Captain W.M. McClean
Diameter: 17 cm
Height: 15.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1942) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa
1662
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Circa
1722
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( black, yellow, iron-red, turquoise, green, blue and aubergine)
Cover
Loop Handle
Panels
Spout
Accession number: OC.5 & A-1942
Primary reference Number: 77742
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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