IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21154
accession number:	C.695-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Meiping vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze-blue. The vase has a short, flaring neck with everted rim. It has rounded, sloping shoulders narrowing in and flaring gently out to the foot.  The low, inverted foot has a flat, recessed, glazed base.  The neck is decorated with plantain leaves, and the shoulders are decorated with four quatrefoil cartouches enclosing flower heads reserved on a washed blue-scale ground.  The centre panel contains a horse, three soldiers delivering a message to two scholars seated at a table, a maid on a terrace, and cloud scrolls.  Below is a band of horses leaping amongst waves, mountains, and three ribbon and lozenge emblems.
title:	vase

NOTES
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type: history note
value: H.S. 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/21154

PEOPLE
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soldiers
scholars
maid

SUBJECTS
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horses
mountains
waves
horses
mountains
waves



TECHNIQUES
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porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze-blue
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1573 - 1619
creation date earliest:	1573
creation date latest:	1619
culture:	Ming
culture:	Wanli
culture:	16th Century
culture:	17th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 15.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 27



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
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