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Saucer-dish with a crowned coat of arms and flowers with precious objects
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Saucer-dish with a crowned coat of arms and flowers with precious objects

anonymous · c. 1740 - c. 1760 · turning; vitrification; paint; gild; emailleren; fired; glaze; gold (metal); email; porcelain

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

About this work

Bowl of porcelain, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, black and gold. On the flat a crowned coat of arms, divided into four quarters: two busts with a sword, a tower with three stars, a fire-breathing dragon and a horse before a tree. Around the coat of arms a band with honeycomb and half-flowers in cartouches. The wall with four flower groups, two with birds or a rooster and two with symbols of luck (canopy, parasol), antiquities (incense burner, scrolls, vase, books, ruyi sceptre) and an attribute of the Eight Immortals (gourd); on the outside four flower branches. Some chips in the rim. Coat of arms porcelain with enamel colours.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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Credit lineSaucer-dish with a crowned coat of arms and flowers with precious objects. c. 1740 - c. 1760. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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