IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21018
accession number:	C.639A-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	vessel

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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.


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/21018

PEOPLE
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figures

SUBJECTS
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sword
lotus
sword
lotus



TECHNIQUES
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porcelain, each covered with clear glaze encrusted with red dirt, decorated with incised and applied decoration
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	960 - 1127
creation date earliest:	960
creation date latest:	1127
culture:	Northern Song (960-1127)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 17.7

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 25.3



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
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