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Bowl. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The bowl has rounded sides, with slightly everted rim, resting on a low foot with flat, recessed, glazed base. The interior is painted with a four-claw dragon roundel and a coin-pattern border around the rim. The exterior is decorated with military officials in ceremonial dress displaying a cart-pulling camel to the Emperor (?), beneath a border of flower heads in a chevron pattern on a washed blue band.
History note: Purchased from Franks, December 1922, for £4.0s.0d; 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: 21.5 cm
Height: 9.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
17th Century#
Circa
1662
-
1700
Decoration composed of enamel ( blue)
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue
Accession number: C.727-1991
Primary reference Number: 21678
Old object number: CHICER/264
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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