IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 98344 accession number: C.15-1927 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 27 June 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bottle. Hard-paste porcelain with underglaze powder-blue ground and painted in famille verte enamels, and gilt. The slender, pear-shaped body resting on a low splayed foot and tapering towards the tall neck with a horizontal bulge beneath the flared rim, which is mounted in silver. The mottled, bright blue ground is reserved with four barbed quatrefoil panels round the widest part, alternately enclosing 'Antiques' and dense clusters of chrysanthemum growing from pierced rockwork and prunus beside bamboo; there are two smaller barbed quatrefoil vignettes above, one with a vase of peonies and the other with flowering sprays, beneath two fan-shaped vignettes on the shoulders, one with sprays of chrysanthemum and the other with dianthus growing behind rockwork. These are all picked out in bright famille verte enamels and reserved against gilt floral scrollwork, now barely visible. The base is white. object type: Bottle. Hard-paste porcelain with a powder-blue ground, reserves painted in famille verte enamels, and gilt, enclosing 'Antiques', chrysanthemum, prunus, peonies and flowering sprays. title: bottle LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Reginald Cory, MA STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/98344 SUBJECTS ------------------- antiques rockwork chrysanthemum bamboo prunus peonies dianthus antiques rockwork chrysanthemum bamboo prunus peonies dianthus TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain with an underglaze powder-blue ground, famille verte enamels, and gilding. throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1662 - 1722 creation date earliest: 1662 creation date latest: 1722 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: Kangxi Period (1662-1722) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 11.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.7