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Vase with flower sprays and animals in cartouches in reserve on an aubergine speckled ground
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Vase with flower sprays and animals in cartouches in reserve on an aubergine speckled ground

anonymous · c. 1700 - c. 1724 · turning; vitrification; paint; gild; emailleren; fired; glaze; cobalt (mineral); gold (metal); email; porcelain

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

About this work

Tall, square-shaped porcelain vase with a flat shoulder, wide straight neck, and flaring rim, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine, and black. The vase is covered with a speckled aubergine-colored ground with peonies and butterflies; within this, cut-out cartouches in the shape of a square, a pomegranate, a leaf, a peach, or a scroll, filled with flowering plants, a prunus branch, a river landscape, two deer beside a pine tree, and mushrooms or two birds on a branch; around the neck, a band with a ruyi motif. Marked on the underside with an artemisia leaf. Famille verte.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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vase
Credit lineVase with flower sprays and animals in cartouches in reserve on an aubergine speckled ground. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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