IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21096
accession number:	C.624-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Bottle jar. Grey stoneware, thrown and turned, covered in white slip, and painted in iron-brown under a crazed grey/green glaze. The truncated body with flattened shoulders, tapers towards the slightly recessed, flat base. The neck is missing and has been replaced with a European stoneware neck. The glaze and slip stop short of the base.  The body is decorated in brown with two large, lobed, lozenge-shape reserves each containing a single robed figure, one seated on a rug and one standing holding a branch.  Spiral motifs decorate the spandrels.  The shoulders are decorated with four panels containing flower heads interspersed with a flower head on a cross-hatched ground.
title:	bottle jar

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Possibly purchased from Dorn, June 1921, for £6.0s.0d; 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/21096

PEOPLE
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figures

SUBJECTS
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rug
branch
rug
branch



TECHNIQUES
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stoneware, thrown and turned, white slip, painted in iron-brown under a crazed grey/green glaze
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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turning

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: Cizhou ware

DATING
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creation date:	1500 - 1600
creation date earliest:	1500
creation date latest:	1600
culture:	Ming
culture:	16th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 17.4

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 24.6



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