IDENTIFIERS
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id:	20978
accession number:	C.608-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 26 November 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cup-mouthed amphora. Near-white, high-fired earthenware, thrown and turned with applied hand-modelled handles, partially clear lead-glaze. The amphora is of ovoid shape, with slender cylindrical neck and dish mouth. The strap handles extending from the shoulders of the vase are decorated at the top with dragons' heads descending into the mouth, and are adorned with three `bobbles' each.  The glaze stops at a fairly regular line well above the base.
title:	amphora

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Franck, April 1921, by Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d.1950) for £10.0s.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/20978


SUBJECTS
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dragons
dragons



CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	600 - 800
creation date earliest:	600
creation date latest:	800
culture:	Tang Dynasty (618-907)
culture:	7th Century-8th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 33.1

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 16.1



CITATIONS
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Chinese Pottery Burial Objects of the Sui and Tang Dynasties
A Handbook to Chinese Ceramics
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