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Description: | Artist: , potter; Date(s): circa 1800 - 1900; Classification(s): porcelain, bottle, throwing, hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, with iron-red, black, aubergine, pink and green enamels and gilding; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.742-1991]
Description: Square section bottle. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue with iron-red, black, aubergine, pink and green enamels and gilding. The bottle is of tapering square section, with angular shoulders, and neck domed with a flaring mouth. The base is flat and unglazed. The body is decorated with four lobed panels of birds among flowering prunus, pine trees and bamboo. Two of the panels are reserved on blue with gilt scrolling foliage, and two of the panels are reserved on an iron-red ground with pink, white and gilt flower heads. The shoulders are similarly decorated with lobed panels, two containing pine branches and two with a flower spray on a similar blue and gilt ground, and iron-red, white and gilt diaper pattern ground. The neck is decorated in underglaze blue and gilt foliage. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | porcelain bottle | Temporal: | name=Edo (Japanese period, 1615-1868); start=1800; end=1900 | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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