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Triple gourd-shaped bottle with brown glaze and flower scrolls
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Triple gourd-shaped bottle with brown glaze and flower scrolls

anonymous · c. 1675 - c. 1699 · 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 (knobbed bottle) of porcelain consisting of three spheres, long neck with thickening and spreading rim, covered with a café-au-lait glaze and painted in underglaze blue. The lower two spheres are covered with a brown glaze alternating with three cream-colored bands; on the upper sphere in blue three connected cartouches with flower scrolls in reserve; the neck with flower branches, butterflies and insects; the rim with a band with leaf motifs. Rim damaged. On the underside an old label with: Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst. Monochrome brown with blue-and-white.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineTriple gourd-shaped bottle with brown glaze and flower scrolls. c. 1675 - c. 1699. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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