IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21260
accession number:	C.720 & A-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 12 January 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Octagonal box with domed cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The box is stoutly potted, compressed and octagonal in section, with rounded shoulders and flat rims. The base has rounded sides resting on a low footrim with flat, recessed, glazed base. The domed cover is painted with a scene of a flock of birds darting beneath a fruiting tree with a pair of pheasants amongst shrubs and flowering peonies in the foreground.  The eight sides of both the box and cover is painted with panels of birds and trees, and bands of lingzhi scrolls encircling each rim.  The interiors have a plain white glaze.
title:	box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Christie's, 31 October 1934, D.W. Freshfield Collection, for £4.0s.0d, part Lot 8; 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/21260


SUBJECTS
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pheasants
birds
shrubs
peonies
trees
pheasants
birds
shrubs
peonies
trees



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:	1522 - 1566
creation date earliest:	1522
creation date latest:	1566
culture:	Ming
culture:	Jiajing (1521-1567)
culture:	16th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 31.6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 18.6



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
CITATIONS
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The Art of the Chinese Potter: an illustrated survey
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