Chinese porcelain plate with asters

An image of Plate. Unknown production, China. The plate is painted in underglaze blue, decorated with asters in petal-shaped panels at the border enclosing five similar flower-heads amongst a dense whorled-pattern at the centre. On the base there are two encircled fish with a flower. This design was especially popular in the Middle East. Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze colour, height 3.9 cm, diameter 27.2 cm, 1600-1699.

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Plate. Unknown production, China. The plate is painted in underglaze blue, decorated with asters in petal-shaped panels at the border enclosing five similar flower-heads amongst a dense whorled-pattern at the centre. On the base there are two encircled fish with a flower. This design was especially popular in the Middle East. Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze colour, height 3.9 cm, diameter 27.2 cm, 1600-1699.

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Accession Number: C.37-1924
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 977 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 181.67kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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17th Century Asteraceae Asters blue blue and white botanical ceramics Chinese Fitz_AA floral flowers glazed hard-paste porcelain petals plate porcelain studio ceramics underglaze whorled

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