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Square bough pot with figures on a terrace, birds and flower sprays
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Square bough pot with figures on a terrace, birds and flower sprays

anonymous · c. 1770 - c. 1790 · vitrification; paint; gild; emailleren; fired; formed; glaze; gold (metal); silver (metal); email; porcelain

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

About this work

Square flower pot or vase of porcelain on spreading foot and wall tapering upwards, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, purple, black and gold. The walls covered with lacework with herein cut-out whimsically shaped cartouches with persons on a terrace in front of a pavilion or three birds on a branch; on the foot vines with herein a cut-out cartouche with birds and plants; matching loose plate on the top with five holes for loose flowers, decorated with flower branches. Contemporary, silver handles. Plate has been broken: a crack in the vase. European forms with famille rose/mandarin.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineSquare bough pot with figures on a terrace, birds and flower sprays. c. 1770 - c. 1790. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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