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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1600 - circa 1644; Classification(s): hard-paste porcelain, drinking vessel, painting underglaze, hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue; Acquisition: given by Evans, Ivor H.N., MA, 1924-08, One of twenty-five pieces of Chinese pottery and porcelain given by Ivor H.N. Evans, MA, Clare College [C.31-1924]
Description: Kendi. Hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue and decorated on the body with a butterfly and grasshopper among rocks and peony. Kendi. Hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue and with a high gloss glaze. The rounded body has a bulbous mammiform spout and an elongated neck with a flaring rim which is decorated with a floral motif. Plantain leaves encircle the neck of the spout and there are cloud collars round the shoulder. There are two similar floral motifs on the body, a rock formation among peonies with an alighting grasshopper, and a rock formation among peonies with a butterfly. The mammiform spout has the same peony flowers. The foot and the base are glazed. | 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: | drinking vessel Unknown hard-paste porcelain | Temporal: | name=Ming Dynasty (1368-1644); start=1600; end=1644 | 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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