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Double gourd ewer with weasel handle. Hard-paste porcelain, painted in iron-red, green, turquoise, yellow and black; traces of gilding round foot. Short neck, double gourd ewer resting on a low tapered foot with flat, recessed, glazed base. Iron-red serpentine spout joined to the upper lobe by an S-shaped stretcher, and handle in the form of a rat. The upper lobe is painted with two quatrefoil panels reserved on a lattice ground; the waist has two quatrefoil square panels with pendant decoration and the lower lobe has four quatrefoil panels and chrysanthemum heads reserved on a lattice ground.
History note: Purchased from Shimizu, 15 April 1930, for £12.0s.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: 14 cm
Height: 16.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
16th Century, Late
Circa
1368
-
1644
Decoration composed of enamels ( in iron-red, green, turquoise, yellow and black) gilt ( traces) glaze
Throwing : Hard paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, turquoise, yellow and black; traces of gilding round foot
Accession number: C.653-1991
Primary reference Number: 21114
Old object number: CHICER/227
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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