IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75243
accession number:	C.481-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 4 December 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: pinkish fritware, mould made, coated in a white slip, carved and painted in blue and outlined in black under a clear glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with everted bracketed rim, sits on a low foot ring
Interior: On the upper body a series of lappets are lightly carved. The roundel is framed by a multi-bracketed band of scrolls and cloud bands. A bracketed roundel contains two qilins back to back painted on a background of four lobbed medallions and scrolling lines reserved in blue.
Exterior: on the lower body a series of over-lapping waves painted are reserved in blue. The glaze covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring and four character marks are painted in black on the base.
object type: fritware, mould made, slipped in white and painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Henry Scipio Reitlinger (d. 1950); Reitlinger Trust, Maidenhead


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:	Henry Scipio Reitlinger
creditline: H. S. Reitlinger Bequest 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75243


SUBJECTS
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Qilin
Qilin



TECHNIQUES
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pinkish fritware, mould made, coated in a white slip, carved and painted in blue and outlined in black under a clear glaze
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)
TECHNIQUES
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slip-coating

CATEGORIES
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category: fritware (stonepaste)

DATING
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creation date:	1640 - 1660
creation date earliest:	1640
creation date latest:	1660
culture:	17th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 8

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 1995

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 42.5



CITATIONS
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Safavid Potters' Marks and the Question of Provenance
Persia and China. Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum 1501-1738
Ceramics from Islamic Lands
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