IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21092 accession number: C.621 & A-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 12 January 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Domed cylindrical box and cover. Orange stoneware, thrown, covered in white slip, and painted in iron-black under clear glaze. The cover with rounded shoulders and slightly concave top fits over the rim of the body. The body has nearly vertical sides, and a low, slightly flaring foot and recessed, flat base. The correct positioning of the cover on the body is indicated by three small applied buttons like rivets near the rim of each (one on the cover and two on the base). The decoration over all is in iron-black on white slip. The cover depicts a sage holding a ring sitting under a tree within a lined circle, and surrounded by a border of rabbits, birds and flowers, within wide and narrow lines. The sides of the cover are decorated with three panels within a border of wide and narrow lines: one showing a boy with a deer, the second a mythical beast and the third a boy holding a hammer and piece of bamboo, and a lion. The panels in between are decorated with flowers and foliage, and tree and foliage with cross-hatched ground. The base is decorated with three bands: the narrow top band with lozenge shapes; the centre band with various flowers and leaves on cross-hatched ground; and the lower band with white flowers, with dark centres and leaves. title: box NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Sotheby's, 2 November 1933, Catalogue of European & Oriental Porcelain ..., lot 11 for £4.10s.0d; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 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/21092 PEOPLE ------------------- boy SUBJECTS ------------------- hammer fantastic creatures deer rabbits birds lion bamboo flowers tree hammer fantastic creatures deer rabbits birds lion bamboo flowers tree TECHNIQUES ---------- stoneware, thrown, white slip, painted in iron-black under clear glaze throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: Cizhou ware DATING ------ creation date: 1500 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1500 creation date latest: 1600 culture: Ming culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 35.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_621_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_621_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_621_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_621_20_26_20A_1991_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_621_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_621_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_621_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_621_20_26_20A_1991_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_621_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_621_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_621_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_621_20_26_20A_1991_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_621_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_621_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_621_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_621_20_26_20A_1991_284_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_621_20_26_20A_1991_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_621_20_26_20A_1991_285_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_621_20_26_20A_1991_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_621_20_26_20A_1991_285_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels