Benjarong bowl decorated with Buddhist figures, Chinese

An image of Bowl/ Benjarong. Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with Buddhist figures in five-coloured overglaze enamels, known as Benjarong, which was made in China specially for the Siamese market in Thailand. Height 9 cm, diameter 17.5 cm, circa 1800-1900. Chinese.

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Bowl/ Benjarong. Hard-paste porcelain, moulded, and decorated with Buddhist figures in five-coloured overglaze enamels, known as Benjarong, which was made in China specially for the Siamese market in Thailand. Height 9 cm, diameter 17.5 cm, circa 1800-1900. Chinese.

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Accession Number: C.14-2008
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 645 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3 (Windows)
Filesize: 158.59kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2010:05:17 11:57:45

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