Garniture de cheminée. Soft-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamels, with gilding. Two bottle-shaped hexagonal vases and three hexagonal baluster vases, each with hexagonal flared neck and mouth rim, tapering to deep hexagonal foot with recessed base. The shoulders are moulded with trailing leaves and vines, and two ground rats. Each object is decorated on two sides with a basket of flowers tied with a ribbon on its tall, arched handle. Beneath is a hatched border and two hatched flower heads in iron-red, gilt and black, and a scroll border, and a hatched border on the foot.
History note: Purchased from Broo, Berlin, July 1932, £58.0s.0d; 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.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Jiaqing (1796-1820)
18th Century-19th Century#
Circa
1796
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1820
Chinese, Qing Dynasty (Jiaqing Period), with European/Dutch decoration
Decoration composed of enamels ( in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown) gilt
Throwing : Soft-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamel, with gilding, with moulded decoration
Accession number: C.688-1991
Primary reference Number: 21400
Old object number: EUR/004/014(5)
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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