Flowerpot Decorated with Fish and Plants, anonymous, c. 1675 - c. 1699

Identification

Title(s)

Flowerpot Decorated with Fish and Plants
Ovoid fish bowl with a crab, shrimp and fish among water plants

Object type

bowl

Object number

AK-MAK-572

Description

Eivormige vissenkom van porselein met een platte rand, beschilderd op het biscuit in groen, geel, aubergine en zwart. Op de wand een garnaal, krab en verschillende vissen tussen schelpen en waterplanten. De rand met prunusbloesems tegen een achtergrond van 'crackled ice'. De onderzijde is ongeglazuurd. Email sur biscuit.

Creation

Artist

anonymous

Place

China

Dating

c. 1675 - c. 1699

School / style

Qing-dynasty (1644-1912) / Kangxi-period (1662-1722)

Material and Technique

Material

Technique

turning / fired / paint / vitrification

Measurements

height 17.2 cm × diameter 22 cm

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

On loan from the Royal Asian Art Society in The Netherlands (Westendorp-Osieck bequest, 1968)

Acquisition

loan 1972

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

…; collection Speyer, Amsterdam, before 1911;{Note RMA.}…; collection Herman Karel Westendorp (1868-1941), Amsterdam;{Note RMA.} his widow Betsy Westendorp-Osieck (1880-1968), Amsterdam, by whom bequeathed to the Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, 1968;{note RMA.} from whom on loan to the museum, 1972

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Documentation

Chinese ceramics in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam : the Ming and Qing dynasties, p. 182, cat.nr. 201
Aziatische kunst uit het legaat Westendorp, cat.nr. 42
Oosterse schatten : 4000 jaar Aziatische Kunst [ : 1 1954a], cat.nr. 332
Catalogus der tentoonstelling van Aziatische kunst in particuliere en openbare collecties in Nederland, cat.nr. 417

Persistent URL

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