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Pear-shaped bottle vase with running horses and flowering plants
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Pear-shaped bottle vase with running horses and flowering plants

anonymous · c. 1640 - c. 1650 · turning; vitrification; paint; fired; glaze; cobalt (mineral); porcelain

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

About this work

Bottle-shaped vase of porcelain with a pear-shaped body and bulbous thickening just below the rim of the neck, painted in underglaze blue. The belly is slightly modelled in broad and narrow panels. In the broad panels alternately a galloping horse between flames and above waves or a flowering plant on a rock. The narrow panels with stripes and dots. On the neck narrow, rectangular panels with four dots or a swastika pattern, in the middle separated by a band with ruyi motifs. The thickening in the neck with pointed leaf motifs. Kraak porcelain in blue and white.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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Credit linePear-shaped bottle vase with running horses and flowering plants. c. 1640 - c. 1650. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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