These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Jar with wooden cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in the `five colour' palette (green, iron-red, yellow, aubergine, black), with underglaze-blue (Wucai decoration). The shouldered baluster body tapers towards the flat, unglazed base with rounded edge. The sides are decorated with four boys climbing in scrolling peonies and foliage, beneath a band of iron-red, green and underglaze-blue petals around the neck, and an underglaze-blue crackle border around the shoulders.
Later pierced, flat, wooden cover.
History note: Purchased from Puttick & Simpson, January 1920, for £26.4s.0d; 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: 26.6 cm
Height: 33.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( green, iron-red, yellow, aubergine, black, blue)
glaze
Cover
composed of
wood (plant material)
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain painted in the `five colour' palette, green, iron-red, yellow, aubergine, black, with underglaze-blue
Inscription present: round, white, serrated
Inscription present: faded character mark in black ink
Accession number: C.650 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21109
Old object number: CHICER/111
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Jar" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/21109 Accessed: 2024-11-25 02:20:37
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/21109
|title=Jar
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-25 02:20:37|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-21109
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_650_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg"
alt="Jar"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Jar</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
