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One of two square stoneware vases, with a sloping cylindrical neck and cylindrical foot ring. With applied white reliefs and opaque powder blue glaze on the interior and parts of the exterior. Decorated on the sides with four of the Eight Immortals standing on waves, enclosed by a rectangular bamboo border, and on the neck with four symbols, all in white. The immortals are Zhong-li Quan (holding a fan), Han Xiang-zi (playing flute), He Xian-gu (with lotus flower) and Cao Guo-jui (castanets to the left).
Mark: Six character seal script mark of Qianlong.
History note: Purportedly given to Sir John Pratt by the Viceroy of Nanking, as a parting gift
Bequeathed by Lady Pratt
Height: 28.5 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1993)
by
Pratt, Lady
Qianlong Period (1736-1795)
1793
-
1794
Accession number: C.1A-1993
Primary reference Number: 72957
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72957 Accessed: 2022-07-04 06:12:00
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