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Saucer-dish with flower sprays, birds and insects
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Saucer-dish with flower sprays, birds and insects

anonymous · c. 1700 - c. 1725 · turning; vitrification; paint; gild; emailleren; fired; glaze; cobalt (mineral); gold (metal); email; porcelain

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

About this work

Porcelain plate with a round wall, painted in underglaze blue and overglaze blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine, black, and gold. On the flat, a chrysanthemum and a flowering tree, a bird on a willow branch, a butterfly and insect in the air; on the wall four times a peony branch; the rim with a fish or shrimp in a cartouche alternating with stylized lotus branches against a black-dotted green ground; the reverse with four flower branches; on the rim a band with fish in cartouches and half-chrysanthemums alternating with napkin work. On the underside, a double circle. Famille verte.

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Credit lineSaucer-dish with flower sprays, birds and insects. c. 1700 - c. 1725. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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