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Incense burner, formed as a figure group of a man with a dragon. Hard-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration. Figure of a thin, open-mouthed, bald immortal sitting cross-legged on rocks beside a grimacing dragon. His right arm is raised with clenched fist, his left hand holds the dragon's horn. He is scantily draped with a tunic clasped at one shoulder and painted with blue clouds. The fierce, finely moulded three-claw dragon, with teeth bared and scaly body is wrapped round the rocks. The white glaze stops short of the foot, leaving a blue/grey band. The body is hollow with three holes pierced in the rocks at the back. Separate oval base (C.738-1991) separately catalogued.
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: 22.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1950) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio
Edo Period (1615-1868)#
19th Century, Late#
Circa
1850
CE
-
1880
CE
Japanese, Hirado
Incense Burner
Diameter 11.0 cm
Height 19.2 cm
Body
Decoration
White glaze
Hard-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.737-1991
Primary reference Number: 21739
Old object number: JAPCER/872
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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