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Meiping vase
Meiping vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze-blue. The vase has a short, flaring neck with everted rim. It has rounded, sloping shoulders narrowing in and flaring gently out to the foot. The low, inverted foot has a flat, recessed, glazed base. The neck is decorated with plantain leaves, and the shoulders are decorated with four quatrefoil cartouches enclosing flower heads reserved on a washed blue-scale ground. The centre panel contains a horse, three soldiers delivering a message to two scholars seated at a table, a maid on a terrace, and cloud scrolls. Below is a band of horses leaping amongst waves, mountains, and three ribbon and lozenge emblems.
History note: H.S. 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: 15.6 cm
Height: 27 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
Wanli
16th Century
17th Century, Early#
Circa
1573
-
1619
Decoration composed of enamel ( blue)
Throwing
: Porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze-blue
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: oval, white, with double lined, black border
Accession number: C.695-1991
Primary reference Number: 21154
Old object number: CHICER/228
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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