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Seated official
Production: Longquan Kilns
Seated official or God. Solid stoneware, with celadon glaze, cobalt blue eyes and pierced for insertion of hair. Official seated with legs apart and left hand on knee. Its flowing robes are held with an oval buckle over a large stomach. The centre back is unglazed.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 3 May 1935, for £5.0s.0d. Property of Mrs Darby, part Lot 11; 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.
Height: 24.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
Circa
1500
CE
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1600
CE
Circa
1800
CE
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1900
CE
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
( eyes)
Figure
Diameter 22.3 cm
Height 22.6 cm
Stand
Diameter 25.0 cm
Moulding
: Stoneware, celadon glaze, cobalt blue eyes and pierced for insertion of hair
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: round, white label, with serrated edge
Accession number: C.599 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21124
Old object number: CHICER/243
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Seated official" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/21124 Accessed: 2024-12-26 15:39:57
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