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Vase with a continuous landscape with figures and moulded dragons and shishi
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Vase with a continuous landscape with figures and moulded dragons and shishi

anonymous · c. 1850 - in or before 1878 · turning; vitrification; paint; gild; emailleren; fired; formed; glaze; gold (metal); email; porcelain

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

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Large porcelain vase with a slightly globular body, long trumpet-shaped neck and flared, lobed rim. Painted on the glaze in blue, red, green, yellow, aubergine, black and gold. On the body a continuous landscape with various figures: a depiction of 'the three combined religions' with three figures around a large vase, one holding a bowl, the other making a rejecting gesture, next to them a servant with a bowl. The other side of the vase with Zhang Guolao, one of the Eight Immortals, with beside him a woman on his donkey; behind them a man with books, scrolls and a sword on a stick on his shoulders. On the neck two scenes: three boys playing with Budai and one of the Eight Immortals Lie Tieguai with a servant; between them twice a modeled shishi (lion dog) with a cub. The shoulder with a band of floral scrolls on red frogspawn interrupted by lobed cartouches with lucky objects. On the band four times a modeled, hornless dragon (chilong).

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Credit lineVase with a continuous landscape with figures and moulded dragons and shishi. c. 1850 - in or before 18. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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