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Meiping vase
Meiping vase. Buff stoneware thrown in sections and luted. The foot is solid-marbled and the body is covered with a marbled brown and cream slip, or overlay, and probably burnished. The vase has a slender, ovoid body, flattened shoulders and cup-shaped mouth; slightly flowing footrim with recessed, flat base.
History note: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Diameter: 10.5 cm
Height: 21.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
Circa
1368
-
1644
Decoration composed of slip ( brown and cream)
Throwing
: Buff stoneware, thrown in sections, covered with marbled brown and cream slip, probably burnished
Burnishing (polishing)
Slip-coated
Inscription present: white, round label, with serrated edge
Accession number: C.607-1991
Primary reference Number: 21080
Old object number: CHICER/864
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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