IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21191
accession number:	C.701 & A-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: 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.
title:	jar

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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.


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/21191


SUBJECTS
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The Three Friends
bamboo
prunus
pine
The Three Friends
bamboo
prunus
pine



TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste 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:	1500 - 1530
creation date earliest:	1500
creation date latest:	1530
culture:	Ming
culture:	16th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 9.6



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
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