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Jar and cover. Hard-paste porcelain decorated in an enamel palette of iron-red, green, blue, yellow, aubergine and black. The ovoid body is tapered towards the foot, with flat, recessed base, and painted with four large vertical panels, two enclosing kylin amidst rocky landscape, and one with chrysanthemum heads and foliage with insects, and the fourth with a phoenix perched on rocks surrounded by peonies, reserved against a green swastika fret ground; diamond and honeycomb border round the shoulders reserved with four vignettes. Matching vignettes encircle the base of the domed cover decorated with a central medallion of kylin in landscape.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 25-28th April 1933, Stephen D. Winkworth Collection, £18.0s.0d, Lot 499; 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: 22.4 cm
Height: 31.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
17th Century-18th Century#
1662
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1722
Decoration composed of enamels ( famille verte)
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain decorated in an enamel palette of iron-red, green, blue, yellow, black and aubergine
Inscription present: oval, white, with double black border
Accession number: C.663 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21485
Old object number: CHICER/220
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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