IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21666 accession number: C.601-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Seated Guanyin on lotus with bird and vase. Porcelain, decorated overglaze with pink, blue, green, orange, black and white enamels, in the famille rose palette and gilt. The figure sits upright and cross-legged on a lotus flower and leaves, with an orange bird on her right and a green vase on her left. Her patterned, blue robe has gilt borders and her head is covered by a pink shawl. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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/21666 PEOPLE ------------------- Guanyin SUBJECTS ------------------- vase bird lotus sitting vase bird lotus sitting TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, decorated overglaze with polychrome enamels in the famille rose palette and gilt moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain category: famille rose DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1800 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 5.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_601_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_601_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_601_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_601_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_601_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_601_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_601_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_601_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels