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Production: Unknown
Hard-paste porcelain bowl, painted in enamel colours and gilding. The well rounded sides rest on a high, slightly tapered foot. The interior is entirely plain. The exterior is applied in relief with two jardinieres, each pierced with two cash and painted in bright blue, containing a flowering trees composed of rose, chrysanthemum and prune flowers borne on white branches dotted with green and turquoise leaves. The flowers are in iron-red, puce and white. The jardinieres are divided by two prunus branches in relief with blossom also in puce and iron-red. The brown edged rim is encircled beneath by a border of gilt bamboo stalks intertwined with an undulating floral garland picked out in tones of turquoise, yellow, blue, green, iron-red and puce.
Given by The Hon. Lady Ida Darwin, 1939
Diameter: 28.3 cm
Height: 12.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1939-06-14) by Darwin, Ida
Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
1736
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1795
white
Ground colour
Enamel
Hard-paste porcelain
Piercing
Enamelling
High relief
Accession number: OC.5-1939
Primary reference Number: 77748
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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