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Meiping vase
Meiping, monochrome vase. Buff earthenware, thrown in sections and covered in aubergine glaze. The vase has high shoulders, small neck and slightly everted mouth rim. The splayed foot and the recessed, flat base is painted brown. The body of the vase has horizontal lines from the wheel circle, and is covered in aubergine-colour glaze.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 2 November 1933, for £3.0s.0d, Catalogue of European & Oriental Porcelain...,Lot 26; 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: 13.5 cm
Height: 24.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
16th Century, Late
Circa
1368
-
1644
aubergine
Glaze
Earthenware
Throwing
: Buff earthenware covered in aubergine glaze and thrown in sections
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.642-1991
Primary reference Number: 21116
Old object number: CHICER/254
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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