IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21753
accession number:	C.742-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 11 August 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Square section bottle. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue with iron-red, black, aubergine, pink and green enamels and gilding.  The bottle is of tapering square section, with angular shoulders, and neck domed with a flaring mouth. The base is flat and unglazed. The body is decorated with four lobed panels of birds among flowering prunus, pine trees and bamboo. Two of the panels are reserved on blue with gilt scrolling foliage, and two of the panels are reserved on an iron-red ground with pink, white and gilt flower heads.  The shoulders are similarly decorated with lobed panels, two containing pine branches and two with a flower spray on a similar blue and gilt ground, and iron-red, white and gilt diaper pattern ground.  The neck is decorated in underglaze blue and gilt foliage.
title:	bottle

NOTES
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type: history note
value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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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
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21753


SUBJECTS
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birds
pine
bamboo
prunus
foliage
birds
pine
bamboo
prunus
foliage



CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: hard-paste porcelain
category: Imari ware

DATING
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creation date:	1800 - 1900
creation date earliest:	1800
creation date latest:	1900
culture:	Edo Period (1615-1868)#
culture:	19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Kakihan

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 7.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 19.0