Pear-shaped bottle vase with auspicious symbols and a woman with a fan
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Bottle-shaped vase of porcelain with a pear-shaped body and long, narrow neck, painted in underglaze blue. The belly is divided into six compartments with in three of them lucky objects: antiquities (vase with plum branch, ruyi scepter, scrolls, incense burner). In the other three compartments a luck symbol with below it two fan-shaped cartouches with a terrace at a pavilion and a reclining woman with a fan at a table, fence and pavilion. Below books. The neck with standing and hanging, pointed leaf motifs and loose flowers. On the shoulder a band with floral scrolls, around the foot a band with loose flowers and on the rim a band with hatching. Two chips in the foot. Blue and white.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description