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Beaker vase with figures, flower sprays and auspicious symbols in shaped panels on a multi-colored ground
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Beaker vase with figures, flower sprays and auspicious symbols in shaped panels on a multi-colored ground

anonymous · c. 1725 - c. 1740 · turning; vitrification; paint; gild; emailleren; fired; formed; glaze; gold (metal); email; porcelain

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

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Porcelain beaker with trumpet-shaped neck and ribbed body, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, purple, black and gold. On the body cartouches against a multicolored background of vertical stripes (harlequin pattern); two cartouches in the form of open scrolls with a woman (long dress) with a boy (page) in an enclosed garden with flowering plants, below two leaf-shaped cartouches with peony and butterfly, on either side of the large compartments a smaller pomegranate- and finger-lime-shaped compartment with luck symbols; on the rim a band with floral scrolls. On the underside two old labels with 'S.K. 21' and '17100/ 91 [...]003/ 5'. A chip in the rim. Part of a five-piece cabinet set. Famille rose.

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Credit lineBeaker vase with figures, flower sprays and auspicious symbols in shaped panels on a multi-colored ground. c. 1725 - c. 1740. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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