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Baluster covered jar with pheasants on a rock near flowering plants and landscapes in panels
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Baluster covered jar with pheasants on a rock near flowering plants and landscapes in panels

anonymous · c. 1750 - c. 1780 · turning; vitrification; paint; fired; formed; glaze; cobalt (mineral); porcelain

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Large, baluster-shaped lidded jar of porcelain with a slightly flaring neck and upstanding rim, painted in underglaze blue. On the wall two pheasants on a rock among flowering plants (peony, magnolia, prunus). Above a band with lambrequins filled with flower rosettes on frogspawn, with landscapes cut out in lobed cartouches. Between the large lambrequins smaller ones with luck symbols (coin, music stone) surrounded by a ribbon and flower scrolls. The neck with spiral work interrupted by prunus blossoms and four lobed cartouches with landscapes. On the rim and shoulder a band with napkin work. Around the foot a band with leaf motifs containing a flowering plant. Blue and white.

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Credit lineBaluster covered jar with pheasants on a rock near flowering plants and landscapes in panels. c. 1750 - c. 1780. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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