IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21306 accession number: C.629-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 22 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Double gourd vase. Buff stoneware, thrown in sections and turned, covered in white slip, incised and painted in modulated shades of iron-brown with sgraffito under a clear glaze. The double gourd vase has a small, tapered neck with no mouth rim. The footrim is slightly flared; the glazed base is slightly recessed and flat. The white slip stops short of the footrim, the glaze covers the gourd down to the base. The upper gourd is decorated with iris and leaves painted in brown, and the lower gourd painted with prunus in brown. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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/21306 SUBJECTS ------------------- iris leaves prunus iris leaves prunus TECHNIQUES ---------- stoneware, thrown in sections and turned, white slip, incised and painted in modulated shades of iron-brown with sgraffito under a clear glaze throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) TECHNIQUES ---------- slip-coated TECHNIQUES ---------- turning CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: Cizhou ware DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1800 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 20.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 35.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_629_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_629_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_629_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_629_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_629_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_629_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_629_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_629_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_629_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_629_1991_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_629_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_629_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_629_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_629_1991_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_629_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_629_1991_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels