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Description: | Artist: Dohachi factory, factory; Date(s): circa 1900 - 1920; Classification(s): porcelain, tea caddy, throwing, hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue; Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.734 & A & B-1991]
Description: Tea jar with stopper and cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue. Jar of ovoid shape, and sloping shoulders tapering to a flat recessed, glazed base with 6-character mark of Chenghua in underglaze blue. The body is painted with a tree surrounded by mountainous landscape, and water with two boats beneath a scrolling border with four flower heads, and above three circular lines in underglaze blue. Pacton (white bronze) cylindrical neck, stopper and cover, the latter with a circle of raised stylised decoration. | 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 Dohachi factory | Temporal: | name=Edo (Japanese period, 1615-1868); start=1900; end=1920 | 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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