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Covered jar with figures, flower sprays and auspicious symbols in shaped panels on a multi-colored ground
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Covered jar 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.

About this work

Lid of a lidded porcelain pot with baluster-shaped body and ribbed wall, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, purple, black and gold. On the wall cartouches against a multicolored background of vertical bands (harlequin pattern); two cartouches in the form of open scrolls with a woman (long dress) with a boy (fool) in an enclosed garden with flowering plants, below two leaf-shaped cartouches with peony sprays and butterfly, on either side of the large compartments a smaller pomegranate- and finger-lime-shaped compartment with lucky symbols; on the neck a band with flower sprays. The lid with the same decoration. On the underside an old label with 'S.K. 21' and one with '17100/ 91 [...]003/ 5'. Belonging to a five-piece cabinet set. Famille rose.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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Credit lineCovered jar 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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