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Cover of an ovoid tea caddy with flowering plants, swastika and diaper pattern
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Cover of an ovoid tea caddy with flowering plants, swastika and diaper pattern

anonymous · c. 1725 - c. 1749 · 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.

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Lid of an egg-shaped porcelain tea caddy, painted on the glaze in blue, black and gold. A swastika pattern with two cut-out cartouches containing a flower branch and a round cartouche with flowering plants (e.g., peony, aster), on the shoulder lacework alternating with a lotus vine in a cartouche. Encre de Chine.

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Credit lineCover of an ovoid tea caddy with flowering plants, swastika and diaper pattern. c. 1725 - c. 1749. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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