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Description: | Artist: Unknown, maker; Date(s): circa 1730; Classification(s): porcelain, bowl, painting underglaze, bowl, hard-paste porcelain, thickly potted, and painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in red, pale red, green, and black enamels, and gold; Acquisition: given by Finch, Irene, Miss, 1998-10-12, Given by Miss Irene Finch [C.24-1998]
Description: Square section bowl. Hard paste porcelain, thickly potted, and painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in red, pale red, green, and black enamels, and gold. Square with deep curving sides rising from a thick tapering square foot with a flat, glazed base. Slightly everted lip. Rim edged in pale brown. Decorated in the middle with a katobuki (good fortune) symbol, and below the rim in underglaze blue with scrolling fern punctuated with flowerheads. Two opposing outer sides are decorated with quatrefoil bracketed reserves with flowers and ferns, and the other opposing two sides with peach shaped reserves with peony sprays, all partly against a gilt and red scroll, and partly a green and black dotted ground with a red and gilt peony on each corner. A band of wavy blue "woodgrain" encircles 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: | bowl porcelain Unknown | Temporal: | name=18th century; start=1730; end=1730 | 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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