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Cylindrical vase with powder blue and landscapes with figures or animals
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Cylindrical vase with powder blue and landscapes with figures or animals

anonymous · c. 1700 - c. 1724 · turning; vitrification; paint; fired; glaze; cobalt (mineral); porcelain

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

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Cylindrical vase of porcelain with a broad, straight neck, flat rim and upstanding lip, 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 a river landscape with a fishing man at the edge of a cliff. Between the elongated cartouches two round cartouches with a bird on a branch and one with a hare. On the other side an insect at flowering plants and a rock and a shrimp between water plants. Powder blue with blue-and-white.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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Credit lineCilindrical vase with powder blue and landscapes with figures or animals. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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