Bottle vase with light brown and ornamental borders
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Rosewater dropper or scent bottle of porcelain with spherical body and two swellings in the neck, painted in underglaze blue and with café-au-lait glaze. The lower part of the body is covered with a light brown glaze above which a band with a thick cream-colored glaze; the shoulder in underglaze blue with damask work alternating with a flower in a medallion; the neck also in blue with three decorative bands: one with a geometric pattern alternating with a medallion with flower scroll, above that a band with hanging leaf motifs, around the rim a band with hanging, pointed leaf motifs; on the underside a double circle. Old label on the underside with: A. Staal Antiquaire/ Rokin 156 Amsterdam. Monochrome brown with blue-and-white.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description