Lacquered Tea Bucket Decorated with Landscapes and Flowers
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
The painted tin tea bucket consists of the bucket and the lid. The square foot of the bucket transitions into a round stem, on which the actual bucket rests. This is ribbed at the bottom and transitions into a slightly wider cylindrical shape. The rim is decorated with applied, gilded garlands and gilded ram's heads, to which two rings are attached. On the cylindrical bucket, two medallions with landscapes and figures are painted, with flowers around them. The lid falls just over the rim of the bucket and becomes narrower towards the top, first convex, then concave. On the lid, a vase-shaped knob is placed, which looks like a smaller version of the tea bucket.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description