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Saucer. Hard-paste porcelain thickly covered with a pale sea-green celadon-glaze. The saucer, resting on a high foot with recessed, glazed base, has rounded sides and an everted rim. The cavetto and rim are moulded in low relief with a radish and leaf decoration and the rim correspondingly in part with jagged leaf edge.
History note: Captain Jensen Collection. 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: 15.1 cm
Height: 4.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
18th Century
Circa
1700
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration
composed of
celadon glaze
Body
Inscription present: rectangular brown inscribed in black ink
Inscription present: orange sticky label
Accession number: C.733-1991
Primary reference Number: 21712
Old object number: JAPCER/240
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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