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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1662 - 1722; Classification(s): porcelain, vase, throwing, hard-paste porcelain printed in iron-red, green, yellow, blue, grey and black enamels; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.656-1991]
Description: Beaker vase (Yanyan Vase?). Hard-paste porcelain printed in iron-red, green, yellow, blue, black and grey enamels. Beaker vase with long, cylindrical neck and trumpet-shape mouth. Ovoid body and splayed base resting on an unglazed footrim with a recessed, flat, glazed base. Encircling the flared mouth is an iron-red and white border of ruyi heads and swirls above a green band. The neck is painted with flowers and foliage on an iron-red ground above a key pattern border. The oviform body has similar scrolling flowers and foliage. The splayed foot has a blue, yellow and green lappet border. | 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: | vase porcelain Unknown | Temporal: | name=Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); start=1662; end=1722 | 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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