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Bottle vase with flower sprays in cartouches in reserve on a speckled green ground
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Bottle vase with flower sprays in cartouches in reserve on a speckled green ground

anonymous · c. 1700 - c. 1724 · 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.

About this work

Bottle-shaped vase of porcelain, with a globular body and long, narrow neck, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine, and black. The body of the bottle is covered with a black-spotted green ground on which flowering plants and butterflies; in this, variously shaped cartouches with flower branches such as aster and peony are cut out; on the shoulder, a band with ruyi motifs, above which a band with flower rosettes in a lobed cartouche alternating with napkin work with flowers; the neck with horizontal bands in different colors; on the rim, a band with a geometric pattern. Famille verte.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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Credit lineBottle vase with flower sprays in cartouches in reserve on a speckled green ground. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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