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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1736 - 1795; Classification(s): porcelain, plate, throwing, hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze-blue, iron-red enamel and gilding; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.675-1991]
Description: Plate. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, iron-red enamel and gilding. The plate has shallow sides resting on a low, slightly tapered foot. The interior is decorated with a large central medallion depicting a pavilion amid rocks and flowering trees surrounded by a double circle border. Radiating from the border are three similar landscape scenes depicting a pavilion and pagoda and flowering trees alternating with three solid, blue and gilt fan-shaped panels, and three vignettes each enclosing a flower head. The under rim is painted with two branches and leaf sprays. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | porcelain Unknown plate | Temporal: | name=Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); start=1736; end=1795 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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