IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21670
accession number:	C.725-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 12 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. Double gourd vase of gently flattened form, with a narrow, flaring neck. The upper and lower bulbs are joined by two flat loop handles and rest on a rectangular, slightly flaring foot with flat, recessed, glazed base.  Painted on each side with a pair of three-claw, foliate-tailed dragons descending either side of a central Shou character medallion, their curly tails extending upwards onto the bulbous upper section decorated with stylised bats.  A band of key-fret is round the footrim, and a scroll work and pendant border is around the neck.
title:	vase

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


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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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
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21670


SUBJECTS
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dragons
bats
dragons
bats



TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1736 - 1795
creation date earliest:	1736
creation date latest:	1795
culture:	Qing Dynasty
culture:	Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 11.4

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 17.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
CITATIONS
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Porcelain of the National Palace Museum, Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty
Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Catalogue
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