Cylindrical, shoulderd vase with powder bleu and panels in reserve with flower sprays and birds
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Cylindrical vase of porcelain with sloping shoulder, straight neck and flat, upstanding rim, painted in underglaze blue and on the glaze blue, red, green, yellow, black, and gold. The vase is covered with bleu poudré (powder blue) with here cut out two rectangular cartouches with indented corners filled with a bird on a floral branch (prunus and peony); on the blue a decoration in gold of scrollwork with stylized flowers and two rectangular cartouches with indented corners, one filled with rock, bamboo branch and two birds, the other with prunus branch and a butterfly; on the shoulder a band ruyi motif with geometric pattern alternating with lobed cartouches with floral sprays; the neck with geometric pattern in which two fan-shaped cartouches with floral sprays and butterfly or river landscape; the rim with meander motif. A chip in the rim and foot. On the underside an old label with: A. Staal. Antiquaire / Rokin 156, Amsterdam. Bleu poudré with famille verte.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description