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Baluster jar
Baluster jar. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The jar has a short neck with everted rim painted brown, rounded shoulders tapering to a low foot and a flat, recessed, glazed base. The lower part of the footrim is unglazed. The central scene depicts a successful examination candidate returning home. He walks through a landscape past a gentleman and an attendant under a parasol, past another gentleman and attendant under a parasol towards a gentleman in a house. Around the shoulders are four floral vignettes reserved on a blue, trellis-pattern ground.
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: 16.8 cm
Height: 19.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
16th Century, Late
Circa
1575
-
1600
Decoration composed of enamels ( blue and brown)
Throwing
: Porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze-blue
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.709-1991
Primary reference Number: 21211
Old object number: CHICER/880
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Baluster jar" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/21211 Accessed: 2024-11-02 14:31:00
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