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Bottle-vase. Buff stoneware, covered in a bluey/white glaze, with applied handles. The vase has a slender neck with everted mouth rim, ovoid body, and slightly flared footrim with recessed, flat, unglazed reddy-brown base. Lug handles with rings are applied to the neck. The bluey/white glaze stops short of the footrim.
History note: Purchased probably from Garrabed (Eastwood & Holt), 20 June 1924, for £1.2s.0d, as Song `Blanc de Chine'; 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: 9 cm
Height: 15.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Decoration composed of glaze ( bluey/white glaze)
Throwing : Stoneware, ring-handled vase covered in a bluey/white glaze
Inscription present: round, white, serrated label, stuck over another label
Accession number: C.646-1991
Primary reference Number: 21104
Old object number: CHICER/256
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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