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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1700 - 1800; Classification(s): porcelain, plate, painting overglaze, hard-paste porcelain, painted overglaze in red, green, aubergine, and black enamels, and gold; Acquisition: given by Finch, Irene, Miss, 1998-10-12, Given by Miss Irene Finch [C.25-1998]
Description: Plate. Hard-paste, greyish, porcelain, painted overglaze in red, green, aubergine and black enamels, and gold. Circular, with shallow rounded sides and narrow sloping rim, resting on a low tapering footring, with flat, glazed base. There is irregular glazing round the footring. The white central medallion is painted with scrolling stylised flower heads; the cavetto with six panels: three of peony/camellia plus Han "flowers" and leafless scrolling on concentric lozenge brocade alternating with three panels respectively of prunus, pine and bamboo on red trellis brocade. On the flat rim there is a red scrolling border and a gold band on the edge. Round the back are three sprays of prunus above one red line, and two red lines encircle the foot. Four spur marks on the base. There is a central bump on the base. | 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 plate | Temporal: | name=18th century; start=1700; end=1800 | 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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