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Twelve-sided saucer with prawn, fish and water plants
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Twelve-sided saucer with prawn, fish and water plants

anonymous · c. 1700 - c. 1724 · turning; vitrification; paint; fired; formed; glaze; cobalt (mineral); email; porcelain

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

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Twelve-sided porcelain dish, decorated in underglaze blue, with café-au-lait glaze and on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine and black. On the flat surface in the center a shrimp surrounded by four fish and water plants, the rim with zigzag work; the exterior is covered with a café-au-lait colored glaze with four plants in enamel. Marked on the underside with three characters in red enamel in a double circle in underglaze blue. Famille verte with a brown glaze.

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Credit lineTwelve-sided saucer with prawn, fish and water plants. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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