Covered vase with birds on a branch and bouquets
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
Covered porcelain vase on a spreading foot ending in a square base and with a cylindrical body with round shoulder and narrowing towards the foot. Spreading neck with a flat rim and high, angular ears. Painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, purple, black and gold. On the belly two birds on a branch in a landscape and a bouquet of different flowers. Between them straw flowers and insects. The narrowing part towards the foot with a band with modeled standing leaf motifs in relief. The shoulder and the foot with the same decoration as on the belly with below a band with leaf scrolls in relief. On the corners of the base a flower or insect. The sides with a scroll motif in bas-relief. Gold rim. The lid with flowers and insects and on the rim modeled leaf scrolls; lid knob in the form of a pine cone with a modeled rosette as base. Marked on the underside with the F and A.F.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description