IDENTIFIERS
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id:	21676
accession number:	C.726 & A-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 9 August 2016

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Large seal paste box and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. Thickly potted, circular box and cover, with rounded sides, tapering to a low foot with flat, recessed, glazed base.  The cover is decorated on the outside with scholars' leisurely pursuits in a garden (musicians and gaming parties at checkers and other pursuits). The inside is decorated with a couple offering incense to Shang Yuan Furen riding a qilin.  The box is painted on the outside with sages, pavilion and a boatman (Shan Shui subjects), and on the inside with a junk in a mountain gorge.
title:	box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Sotheby's 6 June 1935, Charles E. Russell Collection, for £10.0s.0d, Lot 81; 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/21676

PEOPLE
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Shang Yuan Furen
sages
scholars
boatman

SUBJECTS
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junk
incense
Qilin
playing games
garden
pavilion
gorge
mountain
junk
incense
Qilin
playing games
garden
pavilion
gorge
mountain



TECHNIQUES
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hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze-blue
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: hard-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1662 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1662
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	Qing Dynasty
culture:	Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
culture:	17th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 18.1

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 8.8



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Chinese Ceramics Recent and Rare
CITATIONS
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Pointers and Clues to the Subjects of Chinese and Japanese Art
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