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Large beaker vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in famille verte enamels, green, iron-red, blue, yellow, black, and grey. The vase has a long, cylindrical neck with trumpet mouth on rounded shoulders. The body is ovoid and tapered to a flared footrim, with a flat, recessed, glazed base. Inside, the widely flared mouth is painted with six peony heads and foliage. The neck is painted with four lotus shaped panels containing peony, prunus, chrysanthemum, lotus, shrubs, birds and insects. Around the shoulders is a band of scrolling peony and chrysanthemum. The lower body is painted with two bands of overlapping lotus petals containing colourful peony, chrysanthemum, camellia, lotus, peach, prunus and shrubs issuing from rock work with birds, butterflies and insects emblematic of the seasons.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 25-28th April 1933, Stephen D. Winkworth Collection, for £46.0s.0d, Lot 500; 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: 23.7 cm
Height: 53.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
17th Century-18th Century#
Circa
1662
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1722
Decoration composed of enamels ( famille verte)
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain painted in green, iron-red, blue, yellow, black, grey enamels
Inscription present: artemesia leaf within a double circle in underglaze-blue
Inscription present: white, round, serrated
Accession number: C.660-1991
Primary reference Number: 21474
Old object number: CHICER/279
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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