Tile with Chinese waterlandscape and flower scrolls in the corners
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c. 1700 - c. 1724
Porcelain tile, painted in underglaze blue. In a lobed cartouche, a Chinese river landscape with trees, mountains, pagodas, and a figure on a bridge; the corners with flower scrolls.
The tile was previously broken. Blue-and-white. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as AK-NM-13226; its record gives material recorded as glaze, cobalt (mineral), porcelain; technique vitrification, paint, fired, formed; measurements height 0.8 cm x length 19 cm x width 18.9 cm. Description translated from the museum's Dutch catalogue text; details are those of this museum object, and how far it represents a wider type has not been independently verified.
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- glaze, cobalt (mineral), porcelain
- Technique
- vitrification, paint, fired, formed
- Measurements
- height 0.8 cm x length 19 cm x width 18.9 cm
- Dimensions museum
- height 0.8 cm x length 19 cm x width 18.9 cm
Identification
- Original title
- Tegel met Chinees rivierlandschap en bloemranken in de hoeken
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- AK-NM-13226
- Museum classification
- tile
Catalogue references
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Research required
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