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Meiping Vase
Unknown (Uncertain)
Meiping vase. Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, and painted in underglaze-blue. The vase has a short neck with everted, rounded mouth rim flaring gently out to the foot. It has a shallow, uneven footrim tapering in with flat, barely recessed, unglazed base. The shoulders are decorated with three lappets of lotus divided by clouds, above a central panel of scrolling lotus, beneath which is a band of geometric lappets.
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust in 1991
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991
Diameter: 12.6 cm
Height: 22.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
15th Century-16th Century#
Circa
1400
CE
-
1600
CE
Chinese, provincial ware, or perhaps Vietnamese
Decoration
Throwing
: Hard-porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze-blue
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: round, serrated, white
Accession number: C.696-1991
Primary reference Number: 21155
Old object number: CHICER/261
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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