IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21017 accession number: C.639A & B-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pair of tomb vessels. Porcelain, each covered with clear glaze encrusted with red dirt, and decorated with incised lotus petals and applied figures. Each vessel has a wide, cylindrical neck with horizontal rings on the inside made with a wheel. On the shoulders and the body are seven figures standing on an applied scroll band, incised with lotus petals. Each vessel tapers into a slightly everted foot with a recessed, flat base. Vessel A has a wider neck. The seven figures surrounding the neck represent, two tomb guardians holding swords, and, five figures in robes holding with two hands, buttons of office which rest against their chins. Vessel B has five figures in robes each holding (clockwise) animal heads: goat, monkey, chicken, dog and pig. The other two figures wear robes and perhaps represent the sun and moon. title: vessels NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Sotheby's, 12 July 1934, by Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950) for £6.5s.0d, Lot 15; the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21017 SUBJECTS ------------------- sword sun moon goat monkey chicken dog pig lotus sword sun moon goat monkey chicken dog pig lotus TECHNIQUES ---------- porcelain, each covered with clear glaze encrusted with red dirt, decorated with incised and applied decoration glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 960 - 1127 creation date earliest: 960 creation date latest: 1127 culture: Northern Song (960-1127) CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare