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Covered bowl with stand
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Covered bowl with stand

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

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

About this work

Bowl with lid and underplate of porcelain with half flower-shaped ears in biscuit and flower-shaped metal knob, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze silver. On the bowl a continuous representation of an enclosed terrace with two pairs of women (long lizards), palm tree and banana plant; the lid with the same decoration, now one of the women with a fan; the plate with the same decoration, now four palm trees and two banana plants; on the back three peach branches. On the underside of the bowl and the plate marked with the six-character mark of Emperor Kangxi in a double circle. Ears and knob later silvered in Europe. A crack and a chip in the rim of the plate. Blue-and-white.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineCovered bowl with stand. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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