Chinese porcelain bowl with an aster pattern

An image of Bowl. With an aster pattern in panels outside, and three in a central panel amid scrolls inside. Slightly lobed. Mark like a flower in blue, within two concentric circles. Hard-paste porcelain, height 9.5 cm, diameter 20.9 cm. Kangxi Period (1662-1722). Chinese.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Bowl. With an aster pattern in panels outside, and three in a central panel amid scrolls inside. Slightly lobed. Mark like a flower in blue, within two concentric circles. Hard-paste porcelain, height 9.5 cm, diameter 20.9 cm. Kangxi Period (1662-1722). Chinese.

Image data

Accession Number: OC.1-1943
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 944 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 661.82kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

Key words

17th Century 18th Century Asteraceae asterales Asters blue blue and white bowl ceramics Chinese Fitz_AA floral flowers hard-paste porcelain K'ang Hsi Kangxi porcelain

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024)
            "Chinese porcelain bowl with an aster pattern"
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-207516 Accessed: 2024-05-04 23:05:34

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-207516
            |title=Chinese porcelain bowl with an aster pattern
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-05-04 23:05:34|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-201978

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa36/OC_1_1943_1_201405_jas244_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Bowl"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Chinese porcelain bowl with an aster pattern</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>