IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21134 accession number: C.691-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Baluster vase with lion masks. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze-blue. The vase has a trumpet neck with a deep, straight-sided mouth rim. The shoulders are moulded with lion masks below a central rib at the neck. It has a rounded body, waisted and splaying to a vertical sided foot, with a slightly recessed, unglazed base with red, sandy deposits. The trumpet neck is decorated with stiff leaves, the shoulders with cloud bands between moulded lion masks, and the body with The three friends (prunus, pine and bamboo), above a border of rectangular lappets at the waist and scroll border on the splayed foot. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Sotheby's, 6 June 1935, Charles E. Russell Sale, for £4.10s.0d (as Song), Lot 49; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 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/21134 SUBJECTS ------------------- lion bamboo prunus pine leaves lion bamboo prunus pine leaves TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain, thrown with moulded decoration, decorated in underglaze-blue throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1300 - 1400 creation date earliest: 1300 creation date latest: 1400 culture: Ming culture: Yuan culture: 14th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 12.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare CITATIONS -------- Transactions of the Oriental Society Percival David Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_691_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_691_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_691_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_691_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_691_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_691_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_691_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_691_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_691_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_691_1991_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_691_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_691_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_691_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_691_1991_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_691_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_691_1991_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels