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Vase with elephant handles. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze-blue. The pear-shaped vase has a slender neck, thick, rounded lip, and two elephant head and fixed-ring handles. The body tapers to a deep, flared foot with deep flat, recessed base. The elephant handles are finely painted with eyes, eyelashes, tusks and ears, and the fixed rings with single circle ornament. On each side of the body are elegant peony sprays in blue. The interior is unglazed, as is the base which is covered with a red, sandy deposit.
Of a pair of vases, with C.689B-1991.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 6th June 1935, Charles E. Russell Sale, as Song or Yuan for £31.0s.0d, Lot 64; 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: 12.7 cm
Height: 24.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Yuan
14th Century
Circa
1300
-
1368
Decoration
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, painted in underglaze blue, with base and interior unglazed
Inscription present: white, circular, serrated
Inscription present: white rectangular label
Accession number: C.689A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21065
Old object number: CHICER/260
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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