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Octagonal box with domed cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The box is stoutly potted, compressed and octagonal in section, with rounded shoulders and flat rims. The base has rounded sides resting on a low footrim with flat, recessed, glazed base. The domed cover is painted with a scene of a flock of birds darting beneath a fruiting tree with a pair of pheasants amongst shrubs and flowering peonies in the foreground. The eight sides of both the box and cover is painted with panels of birds and trees, and bands of lingzhi scrolls encircling each rim. The interiors have a plain white glaze.
History note: Purchased from Christie's, 31 October 1934, D.W. Freshfield Collection, for £4.0s.0d, part Lot 8; 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: 31.6 cm
Height: 18.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
Jiajing (1521-1567)
16th Century
1522
CE
-
1566
CE
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue)
Body
Accession number: C.720 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21260
Old object number: CHICER/309
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Box" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/21260 Accessed: 2024-11-02 20:13:00
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