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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1630 - 1670; Classification(s): porcelain, jar, throwing, porcelain, thrown, decorated in underglaze blue; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.721-1991]
Description: Bulbous jar. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. The jar has a wide, unglazed mouth rim, no neck, and rounded sides that taper to a flat unglazed base, with no footrim. The decoration has an incised, floral scroll border round the rim and an incised key-pattern border around base. It has a painted scene of fishermen in a rocky landscape, one seated at a table dreaming of four celestial maidens. | 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 jar Unknown | Temporal: | name=Transitional Period (China); start=1630; end=1670 | 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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