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Baluster jar and cover
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.
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: 24.9 cm
Height: 38.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
18th Century
Circa
1700
-
1722
Decoration composed of glaze
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue
Inscription present: artemesia leaf within a double circle
Inscription present: round, white, serrated
Accession number: C.724 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21669
Old object number: CHICER/109
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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