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Intricate Ceramic Vases

Various antique ceramic vases and jars featuring detailed blue and white patterns, showcasing floral and bird motifs with historical significance.

Ovoid covered jar with flowering plants in panels and ornamental borders, anonymous, c. 1680 - c. 1700 Egg -shaped lid pot of porcelain, painted in underlaze blue. Four scalloped cartouches on the abdomen with a flowering plant in a rock in two and in the other two a bird on a rock near a flowering plant. Between the cartouches flower ranks. A decorative band on the shoulder and the neck. Glaze of the pot partly cracked. Blue White. Japan porcelain. glaze. cobalt (mineral) painting / vitrification Egg -shaped lid pot of porcelain, painted in underlaze blue. Four scalloped cartouches on the abdomen with a flowering plant in a rock in two and in the other two a bird on a rock near a flowering plant. Between the cartouches flower ranks. A decorative band on the shoulder and the neck. Glaze of the pot partly cracked. Blue White. Japan porcelain. glaze. cobalt (mineral) painting / vitrification
Ovoid covered jar with flowering plants in panels and ornamental borders, anonymous, c. 1680 - c. 1700 Egg -shaped lid pot of porcelain, painted in underlaze blue. Four scalloped cartouches on the abdomen with a flowering plant in a rock in two and in the other two a bird on a rock near a flowering plant. Between the cartouches flower ranks. A decorative band on the shoulder and the neck. Glaze of the pot partly cracked. Blue White. Japan porcelain. glaze. cobalt (mineral) painting / vitrification Egg -shaped lid pot of porcelain, painted in underlaze blue. Four scalloped cartouches on the abdomen with a flowering plant in a rock in two and in the other two a bird on a rock near a flowering plant. Between the cartouches flower ranks. A decorative band on the shoulder and the neck. Glaze of the pot partly cracked. Blue White. Japan porcelain. glaze. cobalt (mineral) painting / vitrification
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Pharmacy Bottle, c. 1500-1510. Italy, Papal States, Faenza. Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica); overall: 38.8 cm (15 1/4 in.).Snuff Bottle China. Snuff Bottle 50522Vase. Culture: China. Dimensions: H. 8 in. (20.3 cm); Diam. 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm); Diam. of rim 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); Diam. of base 2 3/8 in. (6 cm). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Pharmacy vase; around 1530 (1525-00-00-1535-00-00);Storage jar (albarello) for mostarda dated 1543 Italian In addition to medicines and small household items, Renaissance pharmacies also sold candies, spices, and condiments, such as the pickled fruit jelly (mostarda) that once filled this jar. The decoration of this albarello includes a surprise that would be visible only when the jar was taken from the shelf and placed upon the counter: a still life on the back depicting the tools necessary for the preparation of the mostarda.. Storage jar (albarello) for mostarda 198941