IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21260 accession number: C.720 & A-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: box NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21260 SUBJECTS ------------------- pheasants birds shrubs peonies trees pheasants birds shrubs peonies trees TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1522 - 1566 creation date earliest: 1522 creation date latest: 1566 culture: Ming culture: Jiajing (1521-1567) culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 31.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare CITATIONS -------- The Art of the Chinese Potter: an illustrated survey --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_720_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_720_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_720_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_720_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_720_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_720_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_720_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_720_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_720_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_720_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_720_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_720_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_720_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_720_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_720_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_720_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels