Kettle with flowering plants and foliate scrolls, Printed baluster-shaped kettle made of porcelain with an S-shaped spout and two eyes to which a whale bone handle is attached. Painted in underglaze blue. On the wall of the kettle four rectangular boxes, painted at the top, with a medallion with a flower branch at the bottom. Flowering plants in the boxes. The boxes are cut into a background of leaf vines, lambrequins and small human heads with curly hair. Blue White., anonymous, Japan, c. 1750, Edo-period (1600-1868), porcelain (material), glaze, cobalt (mineral), hengsel, vitrification, h 13

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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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