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Baluster vase and cover
Baluster vase and cover. Hard-paste porcelain, decorated predominantly in mottled underglaze blue and in famille verte enamels and gilding. The vase has a short, cylindrical neck and slender sides tapering to the foot with a flat, recessed base. The mottled, bright blue ground is decorated with four lobed, quatrefoil vertical panels: the first enclosing a rocky landscape with trees, sun and flying birds; the second with branches of flowering peony; the third with a vase and a piece of coral surrounded by brush pots and scrolls; and the fourth with flowering sprays of chrysanthemum entwined with bamboo growing from rock work.
The domed cover has two quatrefoil vignettes enclosing flower sprays, a conical gilded knop, and gilded flower heads on the blue ground.
History note: 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.
Height: 26.7 cm
Width: 11.6 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qing Dynasty
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
17th-18th Century
Circa
1662
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1722
Decoration composed of enamels ( famille verte) gilt
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain decorated predominantly in mottled underglaze blue and in famille verte enamels and gilding
Inscription present: round, white, serrated, stuck on top of rectangular, serrated label with patterned blue borders
Accession number: C.680.4 & A-1991
Primary reference Number: 21435
Old object number: CHICER/205(5)
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Baluster vase and cover" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/21435 Accessed: 2023-06-04 12:21:52
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Accession Number: OC.94 & A-1946
Accession Number: C.17.1 & A-1948
Accession Number: C.716.1 & A & B-1991
Accession Number: C.2314 & A-1928
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