Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Unknown
Entities
Categories
Description
Bowl. Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, ochre-yellow, turquoise, opaque blue, two tones of green and black with slight touches of gilding with birds, butterflies, flowers and trees.
Bowl. Hard-paste porcelain painted in an enamel palette of iron-red, ochre-yellow, turquoise, opaque blue, two tones of green and black with slight touches of gilding. The steeply rounded sides rest on a high slightly tapered foot and are gently flared towards the heavily lipped rim. The exterior has eight large upright lotus petal-shaped panels alternately enclosing songbirds darting beside pomegranate, prunus and peony trees and pairs of cranes near a peach tree, pheasants on rockwork beneath a magnolia, peacocks near chrysanthemum sprays and phoenix beneath a maple. The border is decorated with stylised overlapping petals in yellow edged in green round the base and a stippled green-ground band with sprays of lotus, chrysanthemum, rose and peony divided by four bird vignettes round the rim. The interior has a central scene of two butterflies hovering above a flowering iron-red tree peony and the rim is encircled by a border comprised of three different brightly coloured diaper patterns interspersed with six floral vignettes.
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 33.6 cm
Height: 15 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1974)
by
Furlonge, M., Miss
Dating
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa
1662
-
Circa
1722
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( iron-red, ochre-yellow, turquoise, opaque blue, two tones of green and black)
gold
Materials used in production
Glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Techniques used in production
Glazing (coating)
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.4-1974
Primary reference Number: 99138
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Thursday 11 August 2016
Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
