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Vase, multicolored painted with Chinese figures in cut-out lobed circles on a yellow ground
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Vase, multicolored painted with Chinese figures in cut-out lobed circles on a yellow ground

Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur · c. 1735 · painting technique; porcelain

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

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Vase of painted porcelain. The vase, except for the neck, is covered with a yellow ground, on which two garlands of Indian flowers are painted on the body and the lid. In the yellow ground are cut out two large almost circular fields with lobed edges, in which contour chinoiserie are painted, and six pear-shaped fields with birds and flowers. The vase is marked.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineVaas, veelkleurig beschilderd met Chinezen in uitgespaarde gelobde cirkels in een gele fond. c. 1735. Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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