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Description: | Artist: Unknown; Date(s): 1662 - 1722; Classification(s): porcelain, jar, throwing, hard-paste porcelain decorated in an enamel palette of iron-red, green, blue, yellow, black and aubergine; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.663 & A-1991]
Description: Jar and cover. Hard-paste porcelain decorated in an enamel palette of iron-red, green, blue, yellow, aubergine and black. The ovoid body is tapered towards the foot, with flat, recessed base, and painted with four large vertical panels, two enclosing kylin amidst rocky landscape, and one with chrysanthemum heads and foliage with insects, and the fourth with a phoenix perched on rocks surrounded by peonies, reserved against a green swastika fret ground; diamond and honeycomb border round the shoulders reserved with four vignettes. Matching vignettes encircle the base of the domed cover decorated with a central medallion of kylin in landscape. | 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=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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