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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): after 1736 - circa 1795; Classification(s): porcelain, dish, throwing, hard-paste porcelain painted in famille rose enamels, green, yellow, iron-red, black, brown, on a rose ground, gilded rim; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.686-1991]
Description: Square dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in famille rose enamels, green, yellow, iron-red, black, brown, on a rose ground. The steep, curved sides with flaring rim springing from a low foot with flat, recessed base. The interior is decorated with a central quatrefoil cartouche enclosing a European figure in landscape, holding a lantern, surrounded by four smaller quatrefoil cartouches each enclosing a seated European figure in a landscape, reserved on a rose ground painted in deeper rose with scrolling flower heads. Gilt rim, the underside is covered in a turquoise glaze. | 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=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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