Miniature pear-shaped bottle vase with flowering plants, anonymous, c. 1675 - c. 1724

Title(s)

Miniature pear-shaped bottle vase with flowering plants

Object type

• vase

Object number

AK-RBK-14400-1

Description

Miniatuur flesvormige vaas van porselein met een peervormig lichaam, beschilderd in onderglazuur blauw. Op de buik bloeiende planten (prunus, aster). Blauw-wit.

Artist

• anonymous

Place

China

Dating

c. 1675 - c. 1724

School / style

Qing-dynasty (1644-1912) / Kangxi-period (1662-1722) / Yongzheng-period (1723-1735)

Material

• porcelain
• glaze
• cobalt (mineral)

Technique

turning / fired / paint / vitrification

Measurements

height 6.1 cm
diameter 3.6 cm

What

• ornament derived from plant forms

Credit line

• Gift of the heirs of P.C.E. von Hemert-van der Meulen

Acquisition

gift 1930

Copyright

Public domain

• Supplement to Chinese ceramics in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Jan van, 1965- Campen, p. 18, cat.nr. 145