IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21238
accession number:	C.715 & A-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Wine pot with cover. Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted in underglaze blue. The ovoid body, moulded in eight lobes, tapers to a countersunk, unglazed base.  The serpentine spout emerges from just above the base.  The handle is formed by two dragon heads and the octagonal cover is surmounted by the dog of Fo. The decoration is painted in underglaze blue with vertical pendants of scrolls and flower heads from a key-fret border.  The heads of the dragons are highlighted in blue.
title:	wine pot

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Sotheby's, 27 October 1933, Reginald Le May Collection, for £6.0s.0d, part Lot 61; H.S. 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/21238


SUBJECTS
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dragons
dog of Fo
flower heads
dragons
dog of Fo
flower heads



TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porcelain, moulded in eight lobes, decorated in underglaze-blue
moulding
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:	1400 - 1500
creation date earliest:	1400
creation date latest:	1500
culture:	Ming
culture:	15th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 13.4

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 16.4



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
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