IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21481 accession number: C.661 & A-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 22 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. title: tea caddy NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Garabed, 14 May 1934, for £3.0s.0d; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21481 SUBJECTS ------------------- Five precious things of the Library vase coral peacock feathers butterflies flowers rocks Five precious things of the Library vase coral peacock feathers butterflies flowers rocks TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain decorated in an enamel palette of green, iron-red, blue, yellow, black and grey enamels throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain category: famille verte DATING ------ creation date: 1662 - 1722 creation date earliest: 1662 creation date latest: 1722 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: Kangxi Period (1662-1722) culture: 17th Century-18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 14.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.3 CITATIONS -------- An Important Collection of Chinese Ceramics --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_661_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_661_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_661_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_661_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_661_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_661_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_661_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_661_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_661_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_661_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_661_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_661_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_661_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_661_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_661_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_661_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels