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Vase from a garniture de cheminée: C.688D-1991

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Current Location: In storage

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Vase from a garniture de cheminée

Maker(s)

Maker: Unknown
Decorator: Unknown (Decoration)

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Description

Vase, part of a garniture de cheminée. Soft-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamels, with gilding. Hexagonal baluster vase, with hexagonal flared neck and mouth rim, tapering to a deep hexagonal foot with recessed base. The shoulders are moulded with trailing leaves and vines, and two ground rats. It is painted on two sides with a basket of flowers tied with a ribbon on its tall, arched handle, beneath which is a hatched border and two hatched flower heads in iron-red, gilt and black, and a scroll border, and a hatched border on the foot.

Notes

History note: Purchased from Broo, Berlin, July 1932, £58.0s.0d; H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991.

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 7.4 cm
Height: 17.1 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Qing Dynasty
Jiaqing (1796-1820)
18th Century-19th Century
Circa 1796 CE - 1820 CE

Note

Chinese, Qing Dynasty (Jiaqing Period), with European/Dutch decoration

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown) gilt

Materials used in production

Soft-paste porcelain

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Soft-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, black, yellow and brown enamel, with gilding, with moulded decoration

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: round, white, serrated

  • Text: An bf No. 727 ppan C.B.
  • Method of creation: Inscribed
  • Type: Label

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.688D-1991
Primary reference Number: 21412
Old object number: EUR/004/014(5)D

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 29 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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