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Baluster jar and domed cover
Baluster jar and domed cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted with green, yellow, grey, black, aubergine and blue enamels. The shouldered, baluster body tapers towards the flat, unglazed base with rounded edge. The sides are decorated with stylised mountains and waves, sacred objects and flower heads on a scrolling, green ground below similar bands on the neck and shoulders, and above a band around the base. The domed cover has similar decoration and a blue knop.
History note: 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: 24.8 cm
Height: 37.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
17th Century#
Circa
1662
-
1700
Decoration composed of enamels ( famille verte in green, iron-red, blue, yellow, black, grey enamels)
Throwing : Hard paste porcelain painted with green, blue, yellow, black, aubergine and grey enamels
Accession number: C.664 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21490
Old object number: CHICER/222
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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