Flowerpot with cranes, shishi, hoo-bird and lotur scrolls
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Porcelain flower pot, 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 phoenix above a tree and one with a shishi (lion dog) by a peony. Around the cartouches leaf vines interrupted by two opposite compartments from the rim and foot with lotus vines 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 vines. The inner rim with a band of half flower rosettes. In the bottom a hole, stopped with a cork. Two cracks in the wall restored with two staples. Imari.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description