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Description: | Artist: Unknown, factory; Date(s): circa 1750 - 1800; Classification(s): porcelain, bowl, painting underglaze, hard-paste porcelain, painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in red and pale red enamels, and gold in Imari style; Acquisition: given by Finch, Irene, Miss, 1998, Given by Miss Irene Finch [C.37-1998]
Description: Octagonal rice bowl. Hard paste porcelain, thickly potted, painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in red and pale red enamels, and gold in Imari style. Round bowl flaring out to an octagonal shape via a slightly concave (inverted) border. Straight, circular foot and flat glazed base. Decorated inside with a central flower sprig in underglaze blue within a double line circle, and on the rim with a floral scroll border. The outside is painted in pale underglaze blue outline and wash and red edged in gold with two quails in flight and two standing amid millet. The rim was originally edged in gold which has worn leaving a violet residue of colloidal gold. | 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=mid-late 18th Century; start=1750; 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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