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Pear-shaped bottle vase with powder blue, flower sprays and antiquities
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Bottle-shaped vase of porcelain with a pear-shaped belly and a long, straight neck, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine, black, and gold. The bottle is covered with bleu poudré with three reserved lobed fields on the wall, one filled with antiquities and two with flower branches; around the base of the neck a decorative band with meander and ruyi motifs; around the rim a band with a meander motif; the rim covered with gold. Bleu poudré with famille verte.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit linePear-shaped bottle vase with powder blue, flower sprays and antiquities. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.