Spoon with a porcelain handle, polychrome painted with a Kakiemon pattern
Also known as: Lepel met een porseleinen heft, veelkleurig beschilderd met een Kakiemon-decor
Record status
Individual type · partial
Period
c. 1730 - c. 1735
Spoon made of painted porcelain. The spoon is painted with the 'three friends', birds, and bound hedges on the outside, and with prunus, bamboo, and a bird, among other motifs, on the inside. The latter decoration is repeated on the back of the finial of the handle; on the front a bird and flowers. The spoon is unmarked. The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, holds this object as BK-1968-157-A; its record gives material recorded as porcelain; technique painting technique; measurements length 18.1 cm x width 4 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
- porcelain
- Technique
- painting technique
- Measurements
- length 18.1 cm x width 4 cm
- Dimensions museum
- length 18.1 cm x width 4 cm
Identification
- Original title
- Lepel met een porseleinen heft, veelkleurig beschilderd met een Kakiemon-decor
- Holding institution
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Museum object number
- BK-1968-157-A
- Museum classification
- eating & drinking utensils · spoon
Catalogue references
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