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Milk jug with birds in a landscape
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Milk jug with birds in a landscape

Ansbach · c. 1765 · 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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Milk jug of porcelain with an egg-shaped body, straight spout ending in an animal's head, and at right angles to it a curled handle in the form of a leafy vine. Painted on the glaze in enamel colors and gold. On the body, two birds in a landscape, one on a branch and the other on the ground. Beside them, a bouquet and wildflowers. On the rim, a band with lacework, beneath which gold vines. The curled handle is gilded and ends in a palmette. The lid with wildflowers has the same band with lacework; finial in the form of a fruit branch (pear). Marked on the underside with the A and I.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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service (set)milk jug
Credit lineMilk jug with birds in a landscape. c. 1765. Ansbach. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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