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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1662 - 1722; Classification(s): porcelain, dish, throwing, hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, yellow, blue, grey and black enamels, with incised decoration on the underside, and fluted sides; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.673-1991]
Description: Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, iron-red, yellow, grey, blue and black enamels, with gilding. The dish has shallow, fluted sides and everted, scallopped rim. The interior well is painted with a central, scalloped medallion showing birds and insects in flight around flowering branches issuing from jagged rocks. The fluted sides are decorated with two bands of leaning, overlapping lotus petals containing flowering sprays. The underside is incised with leaning, overlapping lotus petals and painted with three sprays of iron-red and yellow flowers on leafy branches. | 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: | dish porcelain Unknown | Temporal: | name=Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); start=1662; end=1722 | 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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