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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1662 - 1722; Classification(s): porcelain, tea caddy, throwing, hard-paste porcelain decorated in an enamel palette of green, iron-red, blue, yellow, black and grey enamels; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.661 & A-1991]
Description: Tea caddy and wooden cover. Hard-paste porcelain decorated in an enamel palette of iron-red, yellow, green, grey, blue and black. Rectangular caddy with straight sides resting on four feet. The front and back are decorated in famille verte enamels with Five precious things of the Library and other scholarly emblems (including a vase with a piece of coral and two peacock feathers showing it belonged to the official class) within a border of a single line painted in iron-red. The side panels are painted with rocks, flowers and butterflies. The shoulders bear bundles of books and scrolls. | 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: | tea caddy 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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