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Rectangular tea caddy covered with a light blue glaze and antiquities in panels
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Rectangular tea caddy covered with a light blue glaze and antiquities in panels

anonymous · c. 1760 - c. 1770 · turning; vitrification; paint; emailleren; fired; formed; glaze; email; porcelain

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

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Rectangular porcelain tea caddy, covered with a light blue/turquoise glaze and painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, purple and black. On the broad sides a cut-out lotus-shaped cartouche with antiquities (vase with peacock feathers and coral, ruyi scepter, book scroll, incense burner, etc.), the narrow sides with flowering plant (Chinese carnation or bellflower) in a cut-out, leaf-shaped cartouche; on the shoulder two cut-out medallions with peony. European forms with enamel colors.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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Credit lineRectangular tea caddy covered with a light blue glaze and antiquities in panels. c. 1760 - c. 1770. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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