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Baluster jar and cover: C.724 & A-1991

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Baluster jar and cover

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Description

Large baluster jar and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The jar has a slightly flared neck, and rounded rim. The rounded shoulders taper and slightly splay towards the foot. The inner footrim is unglazed, with flat, recessed, glazed base. The body is painted with overlapping, lobed, lotus-leaf shaped panels alternating with panels of river landscapes and plants. A herringbone border is above the foot; a band of meandering lotus on a washed blue ground is at the base of the neck, with a herringbone border above and below on the shoulders. A bud-shaped finial is on the domed cover with foliate rim. The cover is painted with six lobed, lotus-leaf shaped panels above flower heads.

Notes

History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 24.9 cm
Height: 38.8 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
18th Century
Circa 1700 - 1722

Components of the work

Decoration composed of glaze

Materials used in production

Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: artemesia leaf within a double circle

  • Type: Mark

Inscription present: round, white, serrated

  • Text: 552
  • Method of creation: Inscribed
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.724 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21669
Old object number: CHICER/109

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 22 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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