IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21225
accession number:	C.711-1991

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
title:	jar

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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.


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/21225


SUBJECTS
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rats
fruit
gourds
gnawing
rats
fruit
gourds
gnawing



TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porcelain, moulded in eight lobes, decorated in underglaze-blue
moulding
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:	1570 - 1630
creation date earliest:	1570
creation date latest:	1630
culture:	Ming
culture:	16th Century-17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 19.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 17



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
CITATIONS
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The Wares of the Ming Dynasty
Eastern Ceramics and Other Works of Art from the Collection of Gerald Reitlinger: catalogue of a Memorial exhibition
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