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Large bowl. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The bowl has steep, rounded sides that flare towards the rim, and rest on a low tapered foot, encircled with two underglaze-blue line borders. The base is flat, recessed, and glazed. The exterior is painted with scholarly pursuits on a verandah. A sage sits in a pavilion while scholars and their attendants walk in the balustraded garden with a crane, a deer and bats, in a continuous scene above a lappet border. The interior is decorated with a writhing dragon with five claws outstretched among clouds within a double-line medallion.
History note: Purchased from Christie's, January 1923, Colonel Goff's Collection, for £25.0s.0d; 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: 37.2 cm
Height: 17.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
Jiajing (1521-1567)
16th Century
Circa
1522
-
1566
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue)
Body
Inscription present: round, white, serrated
Inscription present: six-character Jiajing mark within a double circle in underglaze-blue
Accession number: C.719-1991
Primary reference Number: 21259
Old object number: CHICER/308
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/21259 Accessed: 2024-12-22 13:48:21
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