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Tea caddy and wooden cover. Hard-paste porcelain decorated in an enamel palette of iron-red, yellow, green, grey, blue and black. Rectangular caddy with straight sides resting on four feet. The front and back are decorated in famille verte enamels with Five precious things of the Library and other scholarly emblems (including a vase with a piece of coral and two peacock feathers showing it belonged to the official class) within a border of a single line painted in iron-red. The side panels are painted with rocks, flowers and butterflies. The shoulders bear bundles of books and scrolls.
History note: Purchased from Garabed, 14 May 1934, for £3.0s.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: 14.2 cm
Height: 16.3 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 decorated in an enamel palette of green, iron-red, blue, yellow, black and grey enamels
Inscription present: white, round, serrated
Inscription present: rectangular, brown
Accession number: C.661 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21481
Old object number: CHICER/199
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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