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Beaker vase (Yanyan Vase?). Hard-paste porcelain printed in iron-red, green, yellow, blue, black and grey enamels. Beaker vase with long, cylindrical neck and trumpet-shape mouth. Ovoid body and splayed base resting on an unglazed footrim with a recessed, flat, glazed base. Encircling the flared mouth is an iron-red and white border of ruyi heads and swirls above a green band. The neck is painted with flowers and foliage on an iron-red ground above a key pattern border. The oviform body has similar scrolling flowers and foliage. The splayed foot has a blue, yellow and green lappet border.
History note: Purchased from Franck, February 1921, for £20.0s.0d; Reitlinger large loose-leaf notebook; Henry Scipio Reitlinger; the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Diameter: 20.8 cm
Height: 43.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
17th Century-18th Century#
Circa
1662
-
1722
Decoration composed of enamels ( in iron-red, green, yellow, blue, grey and black enamels)
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain printed in iron-red, green, yellow, blue, grey and black enamels
Accession number: C.656-1991
Primary reference Number: 21364
Old object number: CHICER/290
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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