IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21747 accession number: C.740 & A-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 13 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lobed tureen and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue with iron-red, green and black enamels and gilding. The tureen is heavily potted with lobed sides, and rests on a broad, low footring with a flat, recessed glazed base and rough foot, painted with a double line circle in underglaze blue. The body is boldly decorated with three shaped panels of chrysanthemum in a vase in front of a fence and reserved on a ground of narrow vertical panels painted with various diaper and scroll patterns. The footring is painted with a whorl pattern and a band of gilt scroll around the rim. The lobed cover, with rounded shoulders is similarly decorated with three shaped panels of chrysanthemum, a band of gilt scroll around the cover and a large knop. The rounded knop is painted with cloud scrolls in underglaze blue, iron-red and gilding, and a band of key pattern. Around the base is a zig-zag pattern and flower heads in iron-red and gilding. The interior has an undecorated white glaze. title: tureen NOTES ----- type: history note value: Possibly purchased from Sotheby's, 1 April 1935, W de Zoete Collection, for £9.0s.0d; 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/21747 SUBJECTS ------------------- vase fence chrysanthemum vase fence chrysanthemum CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain category: Imari ware DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1900 culture: Edo Period (1615-1868) culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 36.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 43.0