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Wine pot with cover. Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and painted in underglaze blue. The ovoid body, moulded in eight lobes, tapers to a countersunk, unglazed base. The serpentine spout emerges from just above the base. The handle is formed by two dragon heads and the octagonal cover is surmounted by the dog of Fo. The decoration is painted in underglaze blue with vertical pendants of scrolls and flower heads from a key-fret border. The heads of the dragons are highlighted in blue.
History note: Purchased from Sotheby's, 27 October 1933, Reginald Le May Collection, for £6.0s.0d, part Lot 61; H.S. 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: 13.4 cm
Height: 16.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Ming
15th Century#
Circa
1400
-
1500
Decoration
Moulding
: Hard-paste porcelain, moulded in eight lobes, decorated in underglaze-blue
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: round, white, serrated
Accession number: C.715 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21238
Old object number: CHICER/876
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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