IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21134
accession number:	C.691-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 22 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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
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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/21134


SUBJECTS
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lion
bamboo
prunus
pine
leaves
lion
bamboo
prunus
pine
leaves



TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porcelain, thrown with moulded decoration, decorated in underglaze-blue
throwing
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: hard-paste porcelain

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

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 12.3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 27.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
CITATIONS
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Transactions of the Oriental Society
Percival David Collection
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