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Small jar and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The jar has a rounded mouth rim, sloping shoulders and body that tapers to a short foot with flat, recessed, glazed base. It is decorated with pine, bamboo and prunus, The three friends, entwined with longevity characters. The shoulders have four roundels inscribed Fu Shou Kang Ning (Good Fortune, Longevity, Health and Tranquility) reserved on a swastika-diaper ground. The cover has a similar diaper pattern and domed finial.
History note: Purchased from the Sydney Vacher Collection, possibly purchased at Sotheby's, 20 July 1933, part Lot 54; 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: 8 cm
Height: 9.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
16th Century, Early#
Circa
1500
-
1530
Decoration
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze-blue
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: the shoulders with four roundels
Inscription present: rectangular, white, with black border
Accession number: C.701 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21191
Old object number: CHICER/171
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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