IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21263
accession number:	C.722 & A-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 11 August 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Baluster jar and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The jar has a straight neck, with lipped rim, rounded, sloping shoulders tapering and flaring out to the footrim, and a flat, recessed, glazed base.  The cover is domed with a large finial.  The neck is painted with a border consisting of a jewel, solid lozenge, artemesia leaf and a pair of books, above a band of herringbone pattern.  The body is painted with Qilin amongst trees and a fence.  Four large cloud scroll motifs decorate the cover interspersed with smaller cloud scrolls.
title:	jar

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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/21263


SUBJECTS
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book
fence
Qilin
artemesia
trees
book
fence
Qilin
artemesia
trees



TECHNIQUES
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porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze-blue
throwing
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:	1630 - 1670
creation date earliest:	1630
creation date latest:	1670
culture:	Transitional Period (1620-1683, China)
culture:	Qing Dynasty
culture:	17th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 26.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 40.0



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
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