Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Bowl, porcelain, painted underglaze in blue and overglaze enamels with spays of flowering tree peony and prunus beside rockwork in a fenced garden.
Bowl. Hard-paste porcelain decorated in the Imari style. Painted underglaze in blue with iron-red enamel and gilding with the addition of turquoise-green, dark pink and black enamels. The steeply rounded sides resting on a high tapered foot. The exterior painted with sprays of flowering tree peony and prunus growing beside pierced rockwork in a fenced garden. The interior with a central sprig of peony within an iron-red trellis-diaper band reserved with four floral vignettes round the rim.
Legal notes
Given by Miss Whitehead of Hertford
Measurements and weight
Height: 9.9 cm
Width: 23 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Given
(1836-07-27)
by
Whitehead, Miss
Dating
Qing Dynasty
Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
18th Century
Previously dated circa 1800
Circa
1736
CE
-
Circa
1795
CE
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( iron-red, turquoise-green, dark pink and black enamels)
cobalt-blue
gold
Materials used in production
clear
Glazed
Hard-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue, with iron-red, turquoise-green, dark pink and black enamels, and gilding
Glazing (coating)
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.6-1836
Primary reference Number: 98285
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 12 October 2020
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
