Chinese porcelain cuboid jarlet

An image of Cuboid jarlet. Unknown production, China. 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. Hard-paste porcelain, with painted underglaze in blue, height 7.6 cm, width 7.2 cm, 1300-1368. Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368).

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Cuboid jarlet. Unknown production, China. 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. Hard-paste porcelain, with painted underglaze in blue, height 7.6 cm, width 7.2 cm, 1300-1368. Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368).

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Accession Number: C.18-1997
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/39.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 683 pixels
Image width: 711 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 285.59kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 39/1
Captured: 2012:09:19 13:48:46

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14th Century ceramics Chinese cube cuboid cuboid jarlet Fitz_AA floral flowers glazed hard-paste porcelain jar jarlet porcelain square underglaze Yuan Dynasty

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