IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21114
accession number:	C.653-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	ewer

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Shimizu, 15 April 1930, for £12.0s.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/21114


SUBJECTS
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weasel
weasel



TECHNIQUES
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hard paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, turquoise, yellow and black; traces of gilding round foot
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1368 - 1644
creation date earliest:	1368
creation date latest:	1644
culture:	Ming
culture:	16th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 14

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 16.7



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
CITATIONS
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Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul Complete Catalogue II, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains
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