Japanese tea bowl with a stream, reeds and migrating ducks

An image of Japanese pottery. Tea bowl. Ogata Kenzan (Japanese, 1663-1743). Production Place: Japan, Kyoto. Deep tea bowl, rounded at the base, thrown and turned. Inset foot and turned out lip. Orange/brown body partially covered outside (and wholly inside) with a white glaze. Overglaze decoration of stream, reeds and migrating ducks in blue, black and brown. Stoneware, height 7.7 cm, diameter, rim, 9.6 cm, diameter, foot, 4.2 cm, circa 1675-1743. Mid Edo Period.

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Japanese pottery. Tea bowl. Ogata Kenzan (Japanese, 1663-1743). Production Place: Japan, Kyoto. Deep tea bowl, rounded at the base, thrown and turned. Inset foot and turned out lip. Orange/brown body partially covered outside (and wholly inside) with a white glaze. Overglaze decoration of stream, reeds and migrating ducks in blue, black and brown. Stoneware, height 7.7 cm, diameter, rim, 9.6 cm, diameter, foot, 4.2 cm, circa 1675-1743. Mid Edo Period.

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Accession Number: C.152-1934
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 850 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 133.46kB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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17th Century 18th Century bowl ducks Edo Period Fitz_AA glazed Japanese Kyoto Ogata Kenzan Ogata Shinsei overglaze pottery reeds Shisui stoneware stream tea bowl teabowl thrown turned

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