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Ovoid tea caddy with women, boy and silver mounts
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Ovoid tea caddy with women, boy and silver mounts

anonymous · c. 1750 - c. 1774 · turning; vitrification; paint; gild; emailleren; fired; glaze; cobalt (mineral); silver (metal); email; porcelain

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

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Tea caddy of porcelain with an egg-shaped body, silver mounting and crackle-glazed, painted in underglaze blue and white and on the glaze turquoise, red, pink, purple and black. The caddy is covered with lacework with therein reserved flowers and butterflies in bianco sopra bianco and two cartouches with a woman at a table and a second sitting on the ground with a boy next to her, around them a hare and vases; around the foot and shoulder a silver mounting. The lid with the same decoration. Lid is restored. Famille rose.

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Credit lineOvoid tea caddy with women, boy and silver mounts. c. 1750 - c. 1774. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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