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Wide-mouthed baluster jar. Grey stoneware, thrown and turned, covered in white slip, and painted in iron-brown/black under a dribbly, clear glaze. The jar has a wide mouth and high, swelling shoulders tapering to a nearly cylindrical lower portion, splayed foot and base recessed in two levels. The decoration is painted underglaze in dark-brown pigment, and organised in three principal horizontal bands. The central band has three small landscape scenes in lozenge-shaped panels, one with a crane, a second with a seated figure and a third with a rabbit. In the spandrels are closely painted and spiral patterns. The bands above and below the central band are decorated with large chrysanthemums with spiralling centres and corkscrew-like leaves. The foot and base are without slip and are unglazed.
History note: Purchased from Stora, Paris, November 1919, for £13.15.0d; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust in 1991
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Diameter: 18.6 cm
Height: 22.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
15th Century-16th Century#
Circa
1400
-
1600
Decoration
composed of
slip
( white)
Glaze
composed of
clear glaze
Throwing
: Stoneware, thrown and turned, white slip, painted in iron-brown/black under a dribbly, clear glaze.
Turning
Inscription present: oval, cream label, with black rim
Accession number: C.622-1991
Primary reference Number: 21093
Old object number: CHICER/863
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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