Cylindrical vase with powder blue and panels with figures and animals in landscapes
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Cylindrical vase of porcelain with a broad, straight neck and upstanding rim, decorated in underglaze blue. The vase is covered with powder blue with hereincut differently shaped cartouches. On the body two elongated cartouches with in one a woman in the window of a pavilion with in front a man on a dragon above swirling waves. In the other two ducks at the shore of a river and a third duck flying in the air. Between the elongated cartouches two smaller ones: a fan-shaped cartouche with flowering plants at a rock and a quatrefoil with a hare. On the other side in the quatrefoil a shrimp between water plants. Powder blue with blue-and-white.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description