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Vase with flowers

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image depicts a vase with flowers by artist Louise Bourgeois. The vase is tall and slender with a narrow mouth. The vase is white with a textured surface and a floral pattern. The body of the vase is wider at the bottom than at the top. There are flowers and leaves painted on the vase in black. The flowers and leaves are on a single stem that curves from the bottom left to the top right of the vase. The background of the image is black, and there is a shadow cast by the vase on the surface below it.

Artwork Details

Date
19th century
Medium
Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over a pink sgraffito ground of vegetal scrolls (Jingdezhen ware)
Culture
China
Dimensions
410 × 624 px
Public Domain
Yes
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