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Potiche vase
unknown1644/1911
Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia, Italy
"Potiche" vase with an ovoid body, flat base and cylindrical neck with a slightly subversive rim, richly decorated with an airy allegorical composition with symbols of beauty and good fortune: it can be interpreted as a symbolic wish for a dazzling career, wealth and honours.
Pansa Collection
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Details
- Title: Potiche vase
- Creator: unknown
- Date: 1644/1911
- Location: Musei Civici di Reggio Emilia
- Photographer: Carlo Vannini
- Period: Qing dinasty : beginning of XIX century a.D.
- Provenance: China, probably from Jingdezhen furnaces, Jiangxi province
- Type: Etnic handmade
- Medium: Porcelain with polychrome enamels in the palette of the 'famille rose'.
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