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Baluster jar
Baluster jar. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The jar has a slightly everted mouth rim on a short neck. Its rounded body tapers to a high foot with deep, flat, recessed base. A leaf motif decorates the neck, whilst the shoulders are decorated with four panels enclosing flowering peach reserved on a diaper background. The body is decorated with a rocky, river landscape scene with three geese and shrubs and bamboo spray, beneath a scroll border.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, April 25 1933, Stephen Winkworth Collection, for £5.0s.0d, Lot 120 ; 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: 16.5 cm
Height: 18.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
16th Century
Circa
1500
-
1600
Decoration
Throwing
: Hard-paste porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze blue
Glazing (coating)
Accession number: C.700-1991
Primary reference Number: 21184
Old object number: CHICER/259
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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