IDENTIFIERS
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id:	20943
accession number:	C.603-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 12 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Grey earthenware, thrown, turned, assembled and burnished. Indistinctly inscribed in Chinese characters inside foot.
title:	cocoon jar

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Sotheby's, 10th December 1933 by H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950) for £6.0s.0d; the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/20943





TECHNIQUES
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earthenware, thrown, turned, assembled and burnished
throwing
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turning
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assembling
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burnishing (polishing)

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	200 - 300
creation date earliest:	200
creation date latest:	300
culture:	Qin (style and period)
culture:	Western Han

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 45.4

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 37.5



CITATIONS
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Sotheby's Sale Catalogue, 27th October 1993
Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art
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