IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21676 accession number: C.726 & A-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 22 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Large seal paste box and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. Thickly potted, circular box and cover, with rounded sides, tapering to a low foot with flat, recessed, glazed base. The cover is decorated on the outside with scholars' leisurely pursuits in a garden (musicians and gaming parties at checkers and other pursuits). The inside is decorated with a couple offering incense to Shang Yuan Furen riding a qilin. The box is painted on the outside with sages, pavilion and a boatman (Shan Shui subjects), and on the inside with a junk in a mountain gorge. title: box NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Sotheby's 6 June 1935, Charles E. Russell Collection, for £10.0s.0d, Lot 81; 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/21676 PEOPLE ------------------- Shang Yuan Furen sages scholars boatman SUBJECTS ------------------- junk incense Qilin playing games garden pavilion gorge mountain junk incense Qilin playing games garden pavilion gorge mountain TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze-blue throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1662 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1662 creation date latest: 1700 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: Kangxi Period (1662-1722) culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 18.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare CITATIONS -------- Pointers and Clues to the Subjects of Chinese and Japanese Art --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_726A_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_726A_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_726A_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_726A_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_726A_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_726A_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_726A_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_726A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_726_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_726_1991_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_726_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_726_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_726_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_726_1991_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_726_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_726_1991_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels