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Production: Unknown
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.
History note: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16th November 1973, lot. 131
Given by Duncan Macintosh, in memory of his parents, John and Kathleen Macintosh (d. 1967)
Height: 7.6 cm
Width: 7.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1997) by Macintosh, Duncan
Yuan Dynasty
14th Century
1300
-
1368
Base
Underglaze colour
Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.18-1997
Primary reference Number: 72706
20
Exhibition number: 74
Exhibition number: 118
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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