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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1770 - 1800; Classification(s): porcelain, dish, painting underglaze, hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in red, pale red, green, and yellow enamels, and gold; Acquisition: given by Finch, Irene, Miss, 1998-10-12, Given by Miss Irene Finch [C.48-1998]
Description: Hard paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in red, pale red, green, and yellow enamels, and gold. Circular with rounded sides and lightly scalloped rim, resting on a low tapering footring. The lip edged with pale brown glaze. The interior is decorated in the centre with a ho-ho bird (phoenix) rising upwards encircled by its colourful tail feathers within a double line circle. The cavetto is decorated with scrolling aoi foliage beneath a trellis - pattern border. The reverse is covered with continuous scroll with three flower heads with tendrils and red cloud scrolls. 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: | dish porcelain Unknown | Temporal: | name=late 18th century; start=1770; 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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