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Covered vase with birds on a branch and bouquets
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Covered vase with birds on a branch and bouquets

Fürstenberg · c. 1785 - c. 1790 · turning; vitrification; paint; relief (sculpture technique); gild; emailleren; fired; formed; glaze; gold (metal); email; porcelain

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

About this work

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
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Credit lineCovered vase with birds on a branch and bouquets. c. 1785 - c. 1790. Fürstenberg. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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