IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21020
accession number:	C.639B-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Tomb vessel. Porcelain, covered with clear glaze encrusted with red dirt, and decorated with incised lotus petals and applied figures. The 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. Five of the figures in robes hold (clockwise) animal heads: a goat, monkey, chicken, dog and pig. The other two figures, also in robes, perhaps represent the sun and moon. The body tapers into a slightly everted foot with a recessed, flat base.
Of a pair with C.639A-1991.
title:	vessel

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Sotheby's, 12 July 1934, for £6.5s.0d, Lot 15, Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


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
collection:	H.S. Reitlinger
creditline: Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21020

PEOPLE
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figures

SUBJECTS
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sun
moon
monkey
dog
pig
chicken
goat
lotus
sun
moon
monkey
dog
pig
chicken
goat
lotus



TECHNIQUES
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porcelain, each covered with clear glaze encrusted with red dirt, decorated with incised and applied decoration
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	960 - 1127
creation date earliest:	960
creation date latest:	1127
culture:	Northern Song (960-1127)

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 17.7

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 26.1



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
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