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Large basin. Hard-paste porcelain painted in famille verte enamels, green, blue, rose, grey, yellow, iron-red and black, and gilding. The basin has steep, rounded sides with broad, everted rim rising from the flat, recessed base. Painted with Jang Qian reaching the Palace of the Queen Mother of the West in the Stars by following the Yellow River to its Source. The scene depicts ladies on balconies within the Palace, musicians, the tea ceremony, weaving, playing games and watching Jan Qian on a tree trunk floating down river, and a boy on a buffalo in a rocky landscape. The rich, diaper border is reserved with eight panels, four of prunus, and four of a butterfly, crane, phoenix and serpent.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 25-28 April 1933, Stephen D. Winkworth Collection, for £45.0s.0d, Lot 563; 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: 42 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
18th Century
Circa
1700
-
1722
Decoration composed of enamels ( famille verte in iron-red, green, rose, yellow and black enamels) gilt
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, rose, yellow and black enamels with gilding
Inscription present: round, white, serrated
Inscription present: six-character mark of Jiajing (1522-66)
Accession number: C.668-1991
Primary reference Number: 21522
Old object number: CHICER/218
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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