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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1796 - 1820; Classification(s): porcelain, vase, 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.688D-1991]
Description: Vase, part of a garniture de chemin?e. Soft-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamels, with gilding. Hexagonal baluster vase, with hexagonal flared neck and mouth rim, tapering to a deep hexagonal foot with recessed base. The shoulders are moulded with trailing leaves and vines, and two ground rats. It is painted on two sides with a basket of flowers tied with a ribbon on its tall, arched handle, beneath which 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: | vase porcelain Unknown | 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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