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Baluster vase. Hard-paste porcelain, decorated in underglaze-blue. The heavily potted vase has a cylindrical neck with applied lug handles below the rounded dish mouth. It has rounded shoulders, and the body tapers into a deep raised foot with flat, unglazed base. The vase is covered in a pale sea-green, celadon crackle glaze. The neck is painted with bamboo sprays either side of the lug handles, and flowering shrubs are painted on the body.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 3 May 1935, Lot 11, for £1.0s.0d; 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: 9.4 cm
Height: 19.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
15th Century#
Circa
1400
-
1500
Decoration
Lug Handles
Celadon glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Throwing
: Porcelain, thrown with applied handles, decorated in underglaze-blue
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: oval, white, with double-line black border
Accession number: C.690-1991
Primary reference Number: 21132
Old object number: CHICER/244
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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