IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21434 accession number: C.680.3-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 10 July 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- type: history note value: H.S. Reitlinger (d.1950); the Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead, from which transferred in 1991. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- 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 ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21434 SUBJECTS ------------------- butterfly fish serpent acanthus lotus prunus chrysanthemum butterfly fish serpent acanthus lotus prunus chrysanthemum TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain decorated in underglaze blue and famille verte enamels throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain category: famille verte DATING ------ 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 -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 32.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.3 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_680_3_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_680_3_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_680_3_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_680_3_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_680_3_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_680_3_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_680_3_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_680_3_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_680_3_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_680_3_1991_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_680_3_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_680_3_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_680_3_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_680_3_1991_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_680_3_1991_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_680_3_1991_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_680_3_1991_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_680_3_1991_285_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_680_3_1991_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_680_3_1991_285_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels