IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21203
accession number:	C.707-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Ding incense burner with dragon handles. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The incense burner has rounded sides, with broad everted rim, resting on three feet, with a flat, unglazed base.  Two dragons, moulded in relief, decorate the sides, and their tails form two handles.  The flat rim is decorated with a border of classic scrolls. The neck is decorated with two fire scrolls: a lozenge motif on one side; and a bird perched on prunus branch on the other.  The sides are painted with three triangles of imitation drapery interspersed with pendant jewels.  The interior is unglazed.
title:	incense burner

NOTES
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type: history note
value: H.S. 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/21203


SUBJECTS
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stone
bird
dragons
prunus
stone
bird
dragons
prunus



TECHNIQUES
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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:	1573 - 1619
creation date earliest:	1573
creation date latest:	1619
culture:	Ming
culture:	Wanli
culture:	16th Century-17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 22.8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 12.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
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