IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21193
accession number:	C.703-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Plate. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The shallow plate has rounded sides springing from a low, slightly tapered foot and rising to a narrow, flattened, foliate rim.  The interior well is decorated with a stylised phoenix (Fenghuang) and foliage within a lined border. The rim is painted with precious objects within single-line borders.  The exterior is painted with a band of scrolling foliage within double and single-line borders and an abstract band within a single-line border.
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Formerly Sydney Vacher Collection; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.


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/21193


SUBJECTS
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phoenix
Fenghuang
phoenix
Fenghuang



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
category: export ware

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: 19.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
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