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Large baluster vase with pierced wooden cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The neck has an everted mouth rim. The rounded, sloping shoulders taper and gently splay towards the foot. The unglazed base is flat, and slightly recessed. The neck is decorated with four vignettes of ruji heads reserved on a Y-work ground, above a border of archaising bronze motifs reserved on a key fret ground. The central scene of the vase depicts scholarly pursuits; one table of five scholars seated at a table playing chess with attendants, with trees and balustrade, and five scholars seated at another table, with attendants. The scene is above a border of lappets.
History note: Purchased from Christie's, January 1923, from Colonel Goff's Collection, for £33.0s.0d; Henry Scipio 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: 27.3 cm
Height: 45.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
Jiajing (1521-1567)
16th Century
Circa
1522
-
1566
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( blue)
Cover
composed of
wood (plant material)
Vase
Accession number: C.699 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21170
Old object number: CHICER/277
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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