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Bowl and wooden stand. Hard-paste porcelain decorated in mottled underglaze blue and in famille verte enamels and gilding. The bowl has steeply rounded sides resting on a high foot, with flat, recessed base. The exterior is decorated with two oval and two fan-shaped vignettes enclosing kylin in a landscape, and flower sprays with insects beneath a gilt border and gilt flower sprays. The interior is decorated with a central medallion depicting two ladies standing either side of a table with a bowl of lilies, within double iron-red circles, and a diaper pattern border around the rim reserved with four flower spray vignettes.
History note: 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.
Height: 10.9 cm
Width: 17.3 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
( famille verte)
gilt
Bowl
Height 8.4 cm
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain decorated in mottled underglaze blue and in famille verte enamels and gilding
Inscription present: round, white, serrated, stuck over another similar
Inscription present: square seal mark in underglaze-blue and within a double circle
Accession number: C.680.5 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21446
Old object number: CHICER/205(5)
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/21446 Accessed: 2024-11-24 22:17:48
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