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Butter Scoop Lid, Crowned by a Recumbent Cow
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Lid of a butter dish of polychrome faience with Kakiemon decoration. The lid has a gilded, recumbent cow as a finial. The parts are painted in the muffle colors blue, red, green, black, and gold with two bound hedges, a flowering tree, a bird on a branch, and loose birds. The butter dish is marked and there is an identical example with accession number BK-1968-199-a.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineDeksel van botervloot, bekroond door een liggende koe. c. 1700 - c. 1725. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
