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Pear-shaped bottle vase with powder blue, flower sprays and antiquities
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Pear-shaped bottle vase with powder blue, flower sprays and antiquities

anonymous · c. 1700 - c. 1724 · turning; vitrification; paint; gild; emailleren; fired; glaze; cobalt (mineral); gold (metal); email; porcelain

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

About this work

Bottle-shaped porcelain vase with pear-shaped body and long, straight neck, painted in underglaze blue and overglaze blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine, black and gold. The bottle is covered with bleu poudré (powder blue) with on the wall three indented lobed fields, one filled with antiquities and two with flower branches; around the base of the neck a decorative band with meander and ruyi motif; around the rim a band with meander motif; the rim covered with gold. Bleu poudré with famille verte.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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flesvase
Credit linePear-shaped bottle vase with powder blue, flower sprays and antiquities. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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