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Meiping bottle
Meiping bottle. Grey stoneware, thrown and turned, covered in white slip, painted in iron black under clear glaze. The bottle is ovoid, with a tapering body and sloping shoulders. It has a small, cylindrical neck with uneven mouth rim, and a low, widely flaring foot and deep, recessed base. The glaze is unevenly spread over the footrim. The cream and glazed body is decorated in brown with flowers and birds on the neck, scrolling lotus in cream on an iron-black ground on the shoulders, and birds and foliage within a panel on one side of the vase, and a rabbit, bird and foliage in a panel on the other side. A band of birds and scrolls circles above the foot.
History note: Purchased from Callow, July 1918, for £8.0s.0d; Henry Scipio 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: 15.1 cm
Height: 27 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
14th Century-15th Century#
Circa
1368
-
1500
Glaze
composed of
clear glaze
Decoration
Throwing
: Stoneware, thrown, turned, white slip, painted in iron black and under clear glaze
Turning
Inscription present: round, cream label, with serrated edge
Accession number: C.618-1991
Primary reference Number: 21084
Old object number: CHICER/276
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Meiping bottle" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21084 Accessed: 2024-12-26 15:39:20
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