IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75342
accession number:	C.51 & A-1954

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 17 December 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: A square box, possibly used for picnics, which is decorated with yellow and red dragons on a blue ground.  In the centre is a rampant dragon among cloud bands and round the sides are sinuous dragons pursuing flaming pearls among cloud bands.  Both the rim of the box and the cover have a key fret border.
title:	box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought from Sotheby's, May 11th 1954, Mrs Seligman Sale.


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
creditline: Bought from Sotheby's, with the Glaisher Fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75342





TECHNIQUES
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underglaze

CATEGORIES
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category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1522 - 1566
creation date earliest:	1522
creation date latest:	1566
culture:	Ming Dynasty

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 16.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 8.6



CITATIONS
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Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections
Chinese Pottery and Porcelain. An account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day ... Forty plates in colour and ninety-six in black and white
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