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Butter dish
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Butter dish

anonymous · c. 1700 - c. 1725 · polychromy; painting technique; earthenware; tin glaze; faience

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

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Round butter dish of polychrome painted faience, with Kakiemon decoration. The dish is painted in the moffel colors blue, red, green, black, and gold with two hedges, a flowering tree, a bird on a branch, and loose birds. The dish is marked and an identical example exists with inventory number BK-1968-199-b.

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butter dish
Credit lineBotervloot. c. 1700 - c. 1725. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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