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Pear-shaped bottle vase with continuous lotus scrolls and ornamental borders
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Pear-shaped bottle vase with continuous lotus scrolls and ornamental borders

anonymous · c. 1500 - c. 1599 · 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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Bottle-shaped vase of porcelain, with a pear-shaped body and trumpet-shaped neck, painted in underglaze blue. On the body, two broad bands with lotus scrolls separated by a decorative band; around the foot, a band with scrollwork in compartments; on the neck, a band with a meander motif with above it a band with pointed leaf motifs. Marked on the underside with a four-character Ming mark in a double circle. The neck has been broken and restored with four staples; a crack and a chip in the rim. Ming porcelain in blue and white.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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Credit linePear-shaped bottle vase with continuous lotus scrolls and ornamental borders. c. 1500 - c. 1599. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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