IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21084
accession number:	C.618-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	bottle

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Callow, July 1918, for £8.0s.0d; 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/21084


SUBJECTS
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birds
rabbit
lotus
birds
rabbit
lotus



TECHNIQUES
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stoneware, thrown, turned, white slip, painted in iron black and under clear glaze
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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turning

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: Cizhou ware

DATING
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creation date:	1368 - 1500
creation date earliest:	1368
creation date latest:	1500
culture:	Ming
culture:	14th Century-15th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 15.1

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 27



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
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