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Baluster vase
Imperial rectangular section baluster vase. Hard-paste porcelain painted in famille rose enamels and gilding. The vase has a rectangular shaped mouth and neck with fungus handles painted in blue. The shoulders taper to a rectangular foot with flat, recessed, glazed base. The sides are painted in mirror symmetry with lobed panels of children and landscapes surrounded by millefleurs. Two smaller quatrefoil panels painted in mirror symmetry with a child in landscape decorate the neck. The interior and base are turquoise glazed.
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.
Diameter: 17.8 cm
Height: 32.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
Hongxian
After
1736
-
Circa
1916
Chinese, possibly Hongxian 1916
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( famille rose)
gilt
Interior And Base
composed of
glaze
( turquoise)
Parts
Throwing : Hard-paste porcelain painted in famille rose enamels and gilding
Inscription present: white, circular, serrated label
Inscription present: four-character Qianlong Yuji mark
Accession number: C.679B-1991
Primary reference Number: 21589
Old object number: CHICER/189
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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