IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21110 accession number: C.651 & A-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Jar with cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in wucai decoration and underglaze-blue, green, iron-red, brown, aubergine enamels. The shouldered baluster vase tapers towards the flat, unglazed base with rounded edge. The sides are decorated with children at play and women in a landscape with balustrades, and a vertical section of cloud scrolls. A band of iron-red and green petal-shaped lappets encircle the neck, below which is an iron-red crackle border. Similar decoration is on the cover, with three boys playing in landscape, and an underglaze-blue knop. title: jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Possibly originally a pair, purchased from Johnson, Wigmore Street, Jan. 1920, for £60.0s.0d; 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/21110 PEOPLE ------------------- children women SUBJECTS ------------------- balustrades playing landscape balustrades playing landscape TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain painted in wucai decoration and underglaze-blue, green, iron-red, brown, aubergine enamels throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain category: Wucai ware DATING ------ creation date: 1573 - 1619 creation date earliest: 1573 creation date latest: 1619 culture: Ming culture: Wanli CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 24.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 38.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_651_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_651_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_651_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_651_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_651_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_651_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_651_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_651_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_651_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_651_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_651_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_651_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_651_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_651_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_651_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_651_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels