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Factory: Dohachi factory (Probably)
Tea jar with stopper and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. Jar of ovoid shape, and sloping shoulders tapering to a flat recessed, glazed base with 6-character mark of Chenghua in underglaze blue. The body is painted with a tree surrounded by mountainous landscape, and water with two boats beneath a scrolling border with four flower heads, and above three circular lines in underglaze blue. Pacton (white bronze) cylindrical neck, stopper and cover, the latter with a circle of raised stylised decoration.
History note: W Peer Groves Collection. 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: 8.7 cm
Height: 9.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
20th Century, Early
Circa
1900
-
1920
Japanese, Edo Period, Kyoto, probably Dohachi
Cover
composed of
white bronze
Neck
composed of
white bronze
Stopper
composed of
white bronze
Glaze
composed of
glaze
Body
Decoration
Inscription present: rectangular white inscribed in blue/black ink
Inscription present: 6-character mark of Chenghua
Inscription present: rectangular white (torn)
Accession number: C.734 & A & B-1991
Primary reference Number: 21724
Old object number: JAPCER/187
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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