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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1662 - 1722; Classification(s): porcelain, vase, throwing, hard-paste porcelain decorated in underglaze blue and famille verte enamels; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.680.2-1991]
Description: Triple gourd vase, part of a garniture of vases. Hard-paste porcelain, decorated in underglaze blue and famille verte enamels, with cylindrical neck and trumpet-shape mouth; the largest bulb tapers into a slightly flared foot with flat, recessed base. The foot and three waists have bands of gilding; peony heads and scrolls in gilt decorate the powder blue. The largest bulb has two quatrefoil reserves, one containing two birds, flowering prunus branch and leaves, and the other a lotus pond with two ducks; the middle bulb has two fan-shaped reserves decorated with flowers, and the top bulb four gilded flower heads. | 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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