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Square bottle with birds, flowering plants and pavilions
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Square bottle with birds, flowering plants and pavilions

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

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

About this work

Square porcelain bottle with a gilded bronze lid, painted on the glaze in red, green, yellow, purple, black and gold. On the sides twice pavilions on an island with rocks and flowering plants (bamboo), a bird on a branch, and twice a flying bird by a prunus branch and bamboo. On the shoulder a band with prunus branches and a leaf motif; around the neck scrolls. On the neck a meander pattern. The lid is in the form of a braided ring, ending in a hoo-bird head on a flower rosette. The rim is bevelled. Arita, decorated in Europe[?] in the Japanese Kakiemon style.

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Credit lineSquare bottle with birds, flowering plants and pavilions. c. 1700 - c. 1724. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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