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Flowerpot with cranes, shishi, hoo-bird and lotur scrolls
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Porcelain flowerpot, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze red, green, black and gold. On the outer wall three scalloped cartouches with two cranes by a pine tree, a heron above a tree and one with a shishi (lion dog) by a peony. Around the cartouches leaf scrolls interrupted by two opposite compartments from the rim and the foot with lotus scrolls and a half flower rosette. Around the foot a band with petal-shaped compartments with flower branches; on the outer rim a band with lotus scrolls. The inner rim with a band with half flower rosettes. In the bottom a hole, plugged with a cork. Imari.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineFlowerpot with cranes, shishi, hoo-bird and lotur scrolls. c. 1700 - c. 1799. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.