IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21434
accession number:	C.680.3-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 10 July 2015

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Triple gourd vase with ormolu mounts, part of a garniture of vases. Hard-paste porcelain, decorated in underglaze blue and famille verte enamels, with cylindrical neck and trumpet-shape mouth; the largest bulb tapers into a slightly flared foot with flat, recessed base.  No gilding.  The vase has an ornate ormolu serpent's head handle with acanthus leaves, and lip and four foot stand.  The largest bulb has two quatrefoil reserves, one containing lotus and a fish; the other with flowering peony and a butterfly.  The middle bulb is decorated with two fan-shaped reserves of flowering prunus and chrysanthemums, and the top bulb has two quatrefoil reserves with a lozenge and pearl motif.
title:	vase

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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/21434


SUBJECTS
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butterfly
fish
serpent
acanthus
lotus
prunus
chrysanthemum
butterfly
fish
serpent
acanthus
lotus
prunus
chrysanthemum



TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porcelain decorated in underglaze blue and famille verte enamels
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: hard-paste porcelain
category: famille verte

DATING
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creation date:	1662 - 1722
creation date earliest:	1662
creation date latest:	1722
culture:	Qing Dynasty
culture:	Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
culture:	17th Century-18th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 32.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 15.3



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