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Saucer-dish with powder blue, rocks and flowering plants
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Saucer-dish with powder blue, rocks and flowering plants

anonymous · c. 1700 - c. 1724 · turning; vitrification; paint; fired; glaze; copper (metal); cobalt (mineral); porcelain

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

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Dish of porcelain with round, lobed wall and bracket-shaped rim, painted in underglaze blue and red. The front is covered with bleu poudré (powder blue) with on the flat a flower-shaped reserve with here rocks and flowering plants; the back is also covered with powder blue with here four times a flower branch incised. Marked on the underside with the six-character mark of Emperor Chenghua in a double circle. Underglaze blue with copper red.

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Credit lineSaucer-dish with powder blue, rocks and flowering plants. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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