IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21192 accession number: C.702-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Square section zun vase with lion masks. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The vase is of beaker form and square in section. The compressed central section has four boldly modelled lion masks, which project in high relief, supported on a high splayed base and surmounted by a waisted neck. The nianhao is positioned on the galleried rim. The deep, moulded footrim has a wide rim, and underneath is a flat, unglazed base fractionally recessed. The mouth rim is painted with scrolling tendrils on three sides and a six-character Wanli mark centred on the fourth. The other section is painted with scaly dragons and a phoenix (Fenhuang) amongst foliage, with bands of stylised mountains and waves at the base of each section. The footrim has a raised band of wave decoration. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Sotheby's 25 April 1933, Stephen Winkworth Collection Sale, Lot 126, for £9.0s.0d; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21192 SUBJECTS ------------------- dragons phoenix Fenghuang foliage mountains waves dragons phoenix Fenghuang foliage mountains waves TECHNIQUES ---------- porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze-blue, with modelled lion masks projecting in high relief throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1573 - 1619 creation date earliest: 1573 creation date latest: 1619 culture: Ming culture: Wanli culture: 16th Century-17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 19 dimension: Height units: cm value: 32 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_702_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_702_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_702_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_702_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_702_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_702_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_702_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_702_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_702_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_702_1991_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_702_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_702_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_702_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_702_1991_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_702_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_702_1991_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels