Ovoid jar and domed cover with bleu poudré and panels in reserve with landscapes and antiquities
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Egg-shaped pot with lid of porcelain, painted in underglaze blue and red and on the glaze green, yellow, aubergine and gold. The pot is covered with bleu poudré (powder blue) with four elongated cartouches in reserve with scalloped rim filled with a crane and a deer in a landscape, antiquities (vase, books, censer), treasures (artemisia leaf, books) and an attribute of the Eight Immortals (castanets), a pond with lotus plants and two cranes, two persons in a river landscape; between the large cartouches each time two small cartouches with flower branches; on the blue flower branches in gold; the lid with the same decoration. On the underside a double circle. Two chips in the rim of the lid. Bleu poudré with famille verte.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description