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Baluster vase with dragon head handles. Earthenware painted in underglaze-blue under a crackle glaze.
The vase has a wide-rimmed dish mouth, cylindrical neck flaring at the base and applied with dragon head handles, rounded body, waisted with high spreading foot, deep, recessed, glazed base. The body painted on either side with a dragon among fire scrolls, below a herringbone border around the mouth and emblem border around the foot (brush pot? and ruyi head? alternating).
History note: Henry Scipio Reitlinger; the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead.
Diameter: 11.5 cm
Height: 22.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
Circa
1368
-
1644
Glaze
composed of
glaze
Decoration
Handles
Throwing : Earthenware, thrown with applied decoration, decorated in underglaze-blue
Inscription present: circular, white, serrated
Accession number: C.692-1991
Primary reference Number: 21140
Old object number: CHICER/849
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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