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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1796 - 1820; Classification(s): porcelain, garniture de chemin?e, throwing, soft-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamel, with gilding, with moulded decoration; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.688-1991]
Description: Garniture de chemin?e. Soft-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamels, with gilding. Two bottle-shaped hexagonal vases and three hexagonal baluster vases, each with hexagonal flared neck and mouth rim, tapering to deep hexagonal foot with recessed base. The shoulders are moulded with trailing leaves and vines, and two ground rats. Each object is decorated on two sides with a basket of flowers tied with a ribbon on its tall, arched handle. Beneath is a hatched border and two hatched flower heads in iron-red, gilt and black, and a scroll border, and a hatched border on the foot. | 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 garniture de chemin?e | Temporal: | name=Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); start=1796; end=1820 | 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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