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Baluster jar
Eight lobed baluster jar. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The jar is moulded in eight lobes, with a short neck, rounded, sloping shoulders tapering to foot, and a flat, glazed, recessed base. A band of key-fret pattern decorates the neck, and the shoulders have a band of petal-shaped lappets. The lobed body has an over-all design of tendrilled vine gourds with four tree rats gnawing at the fruit. Above the foot is a two-lined border and a band of petal-shaped lappets.
History note: Purchased from Evision & Co., St. Mary Axe, July 1924, for £2.10s.0d; Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.
Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.
Diameter: 19.5 cm
Height: 17 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
16th Century-17th Century#
Circa
1570
-
1630
Decoration
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded in eight lobes, decorated in underglaze-blue
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: serrated, white, round
Accession number: C.711-1991
Primary reference Number: 21225
Old object number: CHICER/235
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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