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Tapered rectangular vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The vase has a rectangular neck with galleried rim. The shouldered, rectangular body tapers towards a flared, galleried foot. The base is deep, recessed, flat, and glazed. A key-pattern border decorates the galleried rim and foot. The neck is painted on each side with panels of prunus and insects, and the shoulders and flared foot are decorated with prunus. The four tapered side panels are outlined with a key-pattern border, a depressed, undecorated section, and a central, decorated panel. The four central panels contain a wading crane and birds in a lily pond, chrysanthemum, butterfly and insects, birds and peonies, and birds seated on prunus branches.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, January 1923, from Colonel Goff's Collection, for £6.13s.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: 12.6 cm
Height: 31.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Circa
1662
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1722
Decoration
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze-blue
Inscription present: oval, black border
Accession number: C.729-1991
Primary reference Number: 21693
Old object number: CHICER/110
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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