IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21066 accession number: C.689B-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 May 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Vase with elephant handles. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze-blue. The pear-shaped vase has a slender neck, thick, rounded lip, and two elephant head and fixed-ring handles. The body tapers to a deep, flared foot with deep flat, recessed base. The elephant handles are finely painted with eyes, eyelashes, tusks and ears, and the fixed rings with single circle ornament. On each side of the body are elegant peony sprays in blue. The interior is unglazed, as is the base which is covered with a red, sandy deposit. Of a pair of vases, with C.689A-1991. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Sotheby's, 6th June 1935, Charles E. Russell Sale, as Song or Yuan for £31.0s.0d, Lot 64; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); 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/21066 SUBJECTS ------------------- elephant peony elephant peony TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, thrown, painted in underglaze blue, with base and interior unglazed throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1300 - 1368 creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1368 culture: Yuan culture: 14th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 12.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Porcelain through the Ages title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare CITATIONS -------- Old Furniture Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/C_689B_1991_1_201512_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 1025 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