IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21131
accession number:	C.641 & A-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 29 April 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Charger and stand. Stoneware with incised decoration, and celadon glaze. The charger is heavily potted, of saucer shape, and stands on a low footrim enclosing a rough, unglazed ring on the base, which has burnt reddish brown in the firing. The centre of the interior is incised with a lozenge and trellis pattern within a triple line foliate border. The cavetto is encircled by a knife-carved frieze of flowering stems, the open blooms with pointed petals spaced amongst curly foliate scrolls. Later wooden stand (A).
title:	charger

NOTES
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type: history note
value: H.S. 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/21131


SUBJECTS
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flowers
foliage
flowers
foliage



TECHNIQUES
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thrown, with incised and knife-carved decoration, with a celadon-glaze
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: celadon

DATING
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creation date:	1300 - 1400
creation date earliest:	1300
creation date latest:	1400
culture:	Ming
culture:	14th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Longquan Kilns

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 45.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 52



CITATIONS
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Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul Complete Catalogue II, Yuan and Ming Dynasty Porcelains
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