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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1740 - 1760; Classification(s): porcelain, painting underglaze, hard-paste porcelain, painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in green, red, and brown enamels, and gold; Acquisition: given by Finch, Irene, Miss, 1998-10-12, Given by Miss Irene Finch [C.46-1998]
Description: Hard paste porcelain, painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in green, red, and brown enamels, and gold. Circular, with deep rounded sides, resting on a low tapering foot, the lip coated with brown glaze. The interior is carefully decorated with a naturalistic spray of chrysanthemum and a spray of peony with grass in blue with touches of green and red. "Cloud" reserves with marine motifs extend across the dish from the border. A double blue circle is superimposed over the design. The border has a diaper ground with a central cross. The reverse is covered with an elaborated scroll in blue outline and wash with double bobbles and ting flower heads, and on the footring there is a noughts and crosses border. Five spur marks. | 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 | Temporal: | name=mid-18th Century; start=1740; end=1760 | 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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