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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1750 - 1800; Classification(s): porcelain, bowl, painting underglaze, hard-paste porcelain, painted underglaze in blue and overglaze with iron-red, pale red, green and black enamels, and gold; Acquisition: given by Finch, Irene, Miss, 1998-10-12, Given by Miss Irene Finch [C.44-1998]
Description: Hard paste porcelain, thin and white, painted underglaze in blue and overglaze with iron-red, pale red, green, black enamels, and gold. Circular with deep rounded sides, rising from a narrow foot. Decorated in the centre with two narrow blue concentric circles enclosing the Three Friends (pine, prunus and bamboo), and round the rim with a chequered diaper border beneath a pale brown rim. The outside is painted with two similar designs of chrysanthemum sprays in blue outline and wash with gilt details resting on a red and gold cloud scroll with gold and red flower heads and green leaves, above a border of Karakana (Chinese lotus) petals. The foot ring is encircled by two blue lines. | 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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