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Bottle vase with three shishi and playing boys
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Bottle vase with three shishi and playing boys

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

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

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Bottle-shaped porcelain vase, painted in underglaze blue and red and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow and black. Originally only decorated with the three shishi (lion dogs), in Europe three playing boys and flower branches were added to the body, on the shoulder hanging cartouches filled with lotus scrolls and on the rim hanging pointed leaf motifs added. Two chips in the rim. Underglaze blue with copper red. Over-decorated (Amsterdam polychrome).

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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flesvase
Credit lineBottle vase with three shishi and playing boys. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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