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Kendi. Hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue and decorated on the body with a butterfly and grasshopper among rocks and peony. Kendi. Hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue and with a high gloss glaze. The rounded body has a bulbous mammiform spout and an elongated neck with a flaring rim which is decorated with a floral motif. Plantain leaves encircle the neck of the spout and there are cloud collars round the shoulder. There are two similar floral motifs on the body, a rock formation among peonies with an alighting grasshopper, and a rock formation among peonies with a butterfly. The mammiform spout has the same peony flowers. The foot and the base are glazed.
History note: Purchased in the Malay States
One of twenty-five pieces of Chinese pottery and porcelain given by Ivor H.N. Evans, MA, Clare College
Height: 17.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1924-08) by Evans, Ivor H. N., MA
Ming Dynasty
Circa
1600
-
Circa
1644
Decoration composed of enamel ( blue)
Painting underglaze
: Hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.31-1924
Primary reference Number: 98867
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: GR.1.1864
Accession Number: OC.128-1946
Accession Number: C.2153-1928
Accession Number: GR.5.1977
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