IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75298
accession number:	C.496-1991

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 4 July 2018

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: buff fritware, mould made covered in a white slip, carved and painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze.
Shape: hemispherical bowl with flange, lightly bracketed rim, on a low foot ring
Interior: the cavetto is lightly incised with over-lapping scales. In the roundel decoration is reserved in blue and outlined in black, two qilin type beasts are portrayed back to back against a background of lotus flowers and leaves.
Exterior: on the lower body a frieze of half flowers are painted between scrolls. Glaze covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring; a square seal mark is painted in black on the base. Scar mark just below the rim indicates contact with another vessel in the kiln.
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/75298


SUBJECTS
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Qilin
Qilin



TECHNIQUES
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buff fritware, mould made covered in a white slip, carved and painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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painting underglaze
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:	1600 - 1650
creation date earliest:	1600
creation date latest:	1650
culture:	17th Century, first half#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.5

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 3282

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 48



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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