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tomb vessel
Tomb vessel. Porcelain, covered with clear glaze encrusted with red dirt, and decorated with incised lotus petals and applied figures. The vessel has a wide, cylindrical neck with horizontal rings on the inside made with a wheel. On the shoulders and the body are seven figures standing on an applied scroll band, incised with lotus petals. The figures represent two tomb guardians holding swords, and five figures in robes holding, with two hands, buttons of office which rest against their chins. The body tapers into a slightly everted foot with a recessed, flat base.
Of a pair with C.639B-1991.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 12 July 1934, for £6.5s.0d, Lot 15, Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Diameter: 17.7 cm
Height: 25.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Northern Song (960-1127)
Circa
960
-
1127
Decoration
Throwing
: Porcelain, each covered with clear glaze encrusted with red dirt, decorated with incised and applied decoration
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: round, white label, with serrated edge
Inscription present: faded purple Custom's stamp
Accession number: C.639A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21018
Old object number: CHICER/274 (2)
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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