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Baluster vase with lion masks. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze-blue. The vase has a trumpet neck with a deep, straight-sided mouth rim. The shoulders are moulded with lion masks below a central rib at the neck. It has a rounded body, waisted and splaying to a vertical sided foot, with a slightly recessed, unglazed base with red, sandy deposits. The trumpet neck is decorated with stiff leaves, the shoulders with cloud bands between moulded lion masks, and the body with The three friends (prunus, pine and bamboo), above a border of rectangular lappets at the waist and scroll border on the splayed foot.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 6 June 1935, Charles E. Russell Sale, for £4.10s.0d (as Song), Lot 49; 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: 12.3 cm
Height: 27.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
Yuan
14th Century
Circa
1300
-
1400
Decoration
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain, thrown with moulded decoration, decorated in underglaze-blue
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: circular, white, serrated
Accession number: C.691-1991
Primary reference Number: 21134
Old object number: CHICER/255
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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