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Saucer-dish with two peacocks, rocks and flowering plants
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Saucer-dish with two peacocks, rocks and flowering plants

anonymous · c. 1700 · turning; vitrification; paint; emailleren; fired; glaze; cobalt (mineral); email; porcelain

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

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Porcelain dish with round body, painted in underglaze blue and in enamel colours in blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine, black and gold. On the flat surface two peacocks on a rock surrounded by flowering plants (chrysanthemum, peony, etc.); the body with a stylised lotus and chrysanthemum on different grounds, alternating with bamboo, prunus and pine in a cartouche; the rim with cut-out prunus branches in an iron-red ground. Marked on the underside with an artemisia leaf in a double circle. Dish has been broken. Famille verte.

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Credit lineSaucer-dish with two peacocks, rocks and flowering plants. c. 1700. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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