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Jarlet: C.18-1997

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Current Location: In storage

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Production: Unknown

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Description

Hard-paste porcelain cuboid jarlet, with painted underglaze in blue. With sloping shoulders rising to a square central aperture, and on each corner, there are ring handles resting on florettes. Each of the four sides is decorated differently, with a panel containing respectively, two varieties of peony, chrysanthemum with crapemyrtle and blackberry lily. On each shoulder there is a cloud scroll, and lines run along the ridges and round the central aperture.
In a blue box

There are three labels. (1) Circular, printed in blue 'Duncan Macintosh' and inscribed '20' in black. (2) Triangular printed in red 'South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery Exhibition 1979. The O.C.S. of Hong Kong' surrounding a spiral enclosing a hand and 'no. 74' in red. (3) Triangular printed in black 'Jingdezhen wares the Yuan evolution exhibition 1984. The O.C.S. of Hong Kong', and inscribed '118' in black

One panel has a firing crack which continues under the base. One ring handles has been broken off and restuck to its florette. There is a fault in the glaze on the same side as the crack.

Notes

History note: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16th November 1973, lot. 131

Legal notes

Given by Duncan Macintosh, in memory of his parents, John and Kathleen Macintosh (d. 1967)

Measurements and weight

Height: 7.6 cm
Width: 7.2 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1997) by Macintosh, Duncan

Dating

Yuan Dynasty
14th Century
1300 - 1368

Components of the work

Base

Materials used in production

Underglaze colour
Hard-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Underglaze

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.18-1997
Primary reference Number: 72706
20
Exhibition number: 74
Exhibition number: 118

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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 22 April 2024

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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