IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21211
accession number:	C.709-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Baluster jar. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The jar has a short neck with everted rim painted brown, rounded shoulders tapering to a low foot and a flat, recessed, glazed base. The lower part of the footrim is unglazed.  The central scene depicts a successful examination candidate returning home.  He walks through a landscape past a gentleman and an attendant under a parasol, past another gentleman and attendant under a parasol towards a gentleman in a house.  Around the shoulders are four floral vignettes reserved on a blue, trellis-pattern ground.
title:	jar

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/21211

PEOPLE
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student
gentlemen
attendants

SUBJECTS
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parasol
parasol



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:	1575 - 1600
creation date earliest:	1575
creation date latest:	1600
culture:	Ming
culture:	16th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 16.8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 19.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
CITATIONS
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Transitional wares and their forerunners
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