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Baluster jar
Baluster jar. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The jar has a short neck, and a rounded rim painted brown. The rounded shoulders taper to a low grooved foot with flat, recessed, glazed base. The lower part of the footrim remains unglazed. The groove is painted with a brown line. Ruyi heads decorate the neck, and the shoulders have four roundels containing characters inscribed 'five sons graduate' reserved on diaper ground. The central scene is painted with five sons successful in the examinations returning home to their father, each with an attendant and a parasol, and visiting the Queen Mother of the West in the Moon, a hare with a pestle and mortar near her feet, above ruyi-shaped lappets round the foot.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 20 July 1933, Sydney Vacher Collection, for £10.0s.0d, and described as of astronomical significance, Lot 57; 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: 17.2 cm
Height: 19.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
15th Century-16th Century#
Circa
1400
-
1600
Decoration
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze-blue
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: scratched cross in brown
Inscription present: round, white, serrated
Accession number: C.714-1991
Primary reference Number: 21233
Old object number: CHICER/224
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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