IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 21522 accession number: C.668-1991 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Large basin. Hard-paste porcelain painted in famille verte enamels, green, blue, rose, grey, yellow, iron-red and black, and gilding. The basin has steep, rounded sides with broad, everted rim rising from the flat, recessed base. Painted with Jang Qian reaching the Palace of the Queen Mother of the West in the Stars by following the Yellow River to its Source. The scene depicts ladies on balconies within the Palace, musicians, the tea ceremony, weaving, playing games and watching Jan Qian on a tree trunk floating down river, and a boy on a buffalo in a rocky landscape. The rich, diaper border is reserved with eight panels, four of prunus, and four of a butterfly, crane, phoenix and serpent. title: basin NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Sotheby's, 25-28 April 1933, Stephen D. Winkworth Collection, for £45.0s.0d, Lot 563; 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/21522 PEOPLE ------------------- Jang Qian Queen Mother of the West musicians boy women SUBJECTS ------------------- buffalo butterfly crane serpent phoenix tree trunk tea ceremony weaving playing games watching landscape river rocks palace balcony Yellow River buffalo butterfly crane serpent phoenix tree trunk tea ceremony weaving playing games watching landscape river rocks palace balcony Yellow River TECHNIQUES ---------- hard-paste porcelain painted in iron-red, green, rose, yellow and black enamels with gilding throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: hard-paste porcelain category: famille verte DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1722 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1722 culture: Qing Dynasty culture: Kangxi Period (1662-1722) culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 42 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare CITATIONS -------- Descriptions of Specimens, Remarks by W.P. Yetts --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_668_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_668_1991_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_668_1991_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_668_1991_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_668_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_668_1991_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_668_1991_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_668_1991_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_668_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_668_1991_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_668_1991_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_668_1991_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels