IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21400
accession number:	C.688-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	garniture de cheminée

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Broo, Berlin, July 1932, £58.0s.0d; 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/21400


SUBJECTS
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basket of flowers
rats
leaves
vines
basket of flowers
rats
leaves
vines



TECHNIQUES
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soft-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamel, with gilding, with moulded decoration
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1796 - 1820
creation date earliest:	1796
creation date latest:	1820
culture:	Qing Dynasty
culture:	Jiaqing (1796-1820)
culture:	18th Century-19th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown