IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21481
accession number:	C.661 & A-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 5 August 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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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
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21481


SUBJECTS
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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
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hard-paste porcelain decorated in an enamel palette of green, iron-red, blue, yellow, black and grey enamels
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: hard-paste porcelain
category: famille verte

DATING
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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
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 14.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 16.3



CITATIONS
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An Important Collection of Chinese Ceramics
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