IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21067 accession number: C.595-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Figure of a seated official. Stoneware, moulded, cream glazed, painted in brown and tan, and painted in underglazed iron. Hollow. The official leans backwards and sits with his legs apart. His left hand rests on his knee and his right hand holds the belt across his stomach. His dark-brown shoes peep out from under his cream gown, the edge of which is decorated with brown borders. A brown and tan motif is on his stomach and shoulders. He wears a brown official hat and tassels, beard and moustache. The back lower half of the figure and the foot are unglazed. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21067 PEOPLE ------------------- male official TECHNIQUES ---------- stoneware, moulded, cream glazed, painted in brown and tan, painted in underglazed iron moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: Cizhou ware DATING ------ creation date: 1400 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1400 creation date latest: 1600 culture: Ming culture: 15th Century-16th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 12.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.1 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare CITATIONS -------- An Important Collection of Chinese Ceramics --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_595_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_595_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_595_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_595_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_595_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_595_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_595_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_595_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels