Garden vase, square with relief decoration on the four sides, including tigers and dragons, part of a pair, square. Solid, only spherically hollowed out at the top. The vase has a relief decoration on the four sides. On two adjacent sides a tiger amidst bamboo, on the two other adjacent sides a dragon amidst clouds. Both representations are interrupted by the round grooves that are made in the raised edges. Note: vase B deviating from decoration. Note: from the Erdman, Terra Nova estate in Loenen a / d Vecht. Originally from the Chinese-style country houses built by Reinhard van
Garden vase, square with relief decoration on the four sides, including tigers and dragons, part of a pair, square. Solid, only spherically hollowed out at the top. The vase has a relief decoration on the four sides. On two adjacent sides a tiger amidst bamboo, on the two other adjacent sides a dragon amidst clouds. Both representations are interrupted by the round grooves that are made in the raised edges. Note: vase B deviating from decoration. Note: from the Erdman, Terra Nova estate in Loenen a / d Vecht. Originally from the Chinese-style country houses built by Reinhard van Scherenberg in Baarn called Peking (1791) and Canton (1793). The building materials and garden decorations were imported directly from China. The villas were resp. demolished in 1890-1891 and 1910. When the vases had fallen into Erdmann's hands and from which of the two villas they came, it could not be determined., China, 1700 - 1800, granite (rock), h cm × w 50 cm × d 50 cm × w 588 kg
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