IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21163
accession number:	C.698-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Lobed jar. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The jar has a wide mouth, the rounded sides taper into a low foot with flat, recessed base.  The shoulders are decorated with four panels enclosing flower heads reserved on a background of swastika design.  The lobed body is decorated with two magpies (?) perched among peony, chrysanthemum and bamboo, above two underglaze blue lines which encircle the foot.
title:	jar

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Evision & Co., St Mary Axe, July 1924,  for £2.0s.0d; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead.


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/21163


SUBJECTS
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magpie
peony
chrysanthemum
bamboo
magpie
peony
chrysanthemum
bamboo



TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porcelain, thrown, 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:	1500 - 1600
creation date earliest:	1500
creation date latest:	1600
culture:	Ming
culture:	16th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 13.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 12



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