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Saucer-dish with hunting scene, lotus scrolls and auspicious symbols
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Porcelain dish with round, ribbed wall and scalloped rim, painted in underglaze blue. On the flat surface a hunting scene with two armed riders, one with a bird on the hand, in a landscape, hunting an animal; the rim with a linked band of lotus scrolls with ruyi motif, between which auspicious symbols (conch, parasol, vase) and treasures (artemisia leaf, pearl, rhombus, books); the reverse with sixteen separate flowering branches. Marked on the underside with the six-character mark of Emperor Chenghua in a double circle. A crack in the rim. Blue and white.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineSaucer-dish with hunting scene, lotus scrolls and auspicious symbols. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.