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Bell-shaped bowl with flowering plants in petal-shaped panels
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Bell-shaped porcelain bowl with a lobed rim, painted in underglaze blue. The wall is modeled in three layers of flower-leaf-shaped compartments with therein different flowering plants (lotus, peony, plum, chrysanthemum) and thereby in some compartments a bird or butterfly. On the bottom a flowering plant near a rock with two birds. The inner wall with four times a flowering plant near a rock. On the inner rim a band with lacework interrupted by five times a lobed cartouche with a flower branch (lotus, plum, peony). Some chips in the rim. Blue-and-white.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineBell-shaped bowl with flowering plants in petal-shaped panels. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.