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Lobed jar. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The jar has a wide mouth, the rounded sides taper into a low foot with flat, recessed base. The shoulders are decorated with four panels enclosing flower heads reserved on a background of swastika design. The lobed body is decorated with two magpies (?) perched among peony, chrysanthemum and bamboo, above two underglaze blue lines which encircle the foot.
History note: Purchased from Evision & Co., St Mary Axe, July 1924, for £2.0s.0d; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Diameter: 13.5 cm
Height: 12 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
16th Century
Circa
1500
-
1600
Decoration
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze-blue
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: circular, serrated, white label
Inscription present: remains of a brown, oval label with iron-red border
Accession number: C.698-1991
Primary reference Number: 21163
Old object number: CHICER/232
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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