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Baluster vase
Baluster vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The vase has a short, cylindrical neck, rounded shoulders and ovoid body tapering to a ridge above the splayed foot. The base is flat, recessed, and glazed. The neck is decorated with scrolling foliage and peony heads above three bands of incised lotus petals, containing peony and lotus heads and dense foliage (a shallow band circling the shoulders and base and a deep band circling the body). Beneath the ridge is a hatched pattern, and on the splayed foot is stylised foliage.
History note: H.S. 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: 20.6 cm
Height: 30.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
Circa
1368
-
1644
Decoration
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze blue
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: plant within a double circle in underglaze-blue
Accession number: C.708-1991
Primary reference Number: 21210
Old object number: CHICER/289
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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