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.

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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.

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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

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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

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