IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21210
accession number:	C.708-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Baluster vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue.  The vase has a short, cylindrical neck, rounded shoulders and ovoid body tapering to a ridge above the splayed foot.  The base is flat, recessed, and glazed.  The neck is decorated with scrolling foliage and peony heads above three bands of incised lotus petals, containing peony and lotus heads and dense foliage (a shallow band circling the shoulders and base and a deep band circling the body).  Beneath the ridge is a hatched pattern, and on the splayed foot is stylised foliage.
title:	vase

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/21210


SUBJECTS
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peony
lotus
foliage
peony
lotus
foliage



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

DATING
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creation date:	1368 - 1644
creation date earliest:	1368
creation date latest:	1644
culture:	Ming

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 20.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 30.7



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