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Spoon with ornamental border and translucent rice-grain decoration

DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.

Record status

Individual type · partial

Period

c. 1900 - c. 1941

Porcelain spoon, painted in underglaze blue. The rim of the spoon features a decorative band with hexagons and glazed rice-grain openwork. Six spur marks on the underside.

Blue and white. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as AK-RBK-15328-B; its record gives material recorded as glaze, cobalt (mineral), porcelain; technique vitrification, paint, fired, formed; measurements height 5 cm x length 15.7 cm x width 4.7 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 5 cm x length 15.7 cm x width 4.7 cm
Dimensions museum
height 5 cm x length 15.7 cm x width 4.7 cm

Identification

Original title
Lepel met decoratieve band en geglazuurd ajourwerk
Holding institution
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Museum object number
AK-RBK-15328-B
Museum classification
spoon

Catalogue references

No catalogue numbers recorded. Numbers are only published once transcribed from a verified edition of a standard catalogue — they are never inferred.

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