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Vase from a garniture de cheminée
Maker:
Unknown
Decorator:
Unknown
Vase, part of a garniture de cheminée. Soft-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamels, with gilding. Bottle-shaped hexagonal vase, with hexagonal flared neck and mouth rim, tapering to a deep hexagonal foot with recessed base. The shoulders are moulded with trailing leaves and vines, and two ground rats. It is painted on two sides with a basket of flowers tied with a ribbon on its tall, arched handle, beneath which 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.
Diameter: 8.6 cm
Height: 18.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Jiaqing (1796-1820)
18th Century-19th Century#
Circa
1796
CE
-
1820
CE
Chinese, Qing Dynasty (Jiaqing Period), with European/Dutch decoration
Decoration composed of enamels ( in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamels) gilt
Throwing : Soft-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamel, with gilding, with moulded decoration
Accession number: C.688A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21405
Old object number: EUR/004/014(5)A
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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