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Covered bowl or butter tub with a figure in a landscape, lotus scrolls and flower sprays
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Covered bowl or butter tub with a figure in a landscape, lotus scrolls and flower sprays

anonymous · c. 1650 - c. 1699 · turning; vitrification; paint; fired; formed; glaze; cobalt (mineral); porcelain

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

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Covered bowl or butter boat of porcelain with two handles and on three feet in the form of a monster head, painted in underglaze blue. The outside of the bowl is divided into broad and narrow compartments with alternately in the broad compartments a stylized figure in a landscape and lotus vines; the narrow compartments with a flower branch. On the bottom a peony branch. The lobed rim with flower vines. The lid does not belong to the bowl and is with a cloud motif cut out in a blue background; the lid knob in the form of a shishi (lion dog). The decoration of the bowl is based on Chinese kraak porcelain. Two feet have been broken. Blue-and-white.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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covered bowl
Credit lineCovered bowl or butter tub with a figure in a landscape, lotus scrolls and flower sprays. c. 1650 - c. 1699. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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