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.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

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.

Image data

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

Key words

19th Century Buddhism Buddhist Chinese Date Department Fitz_AA Material Medium Object Type Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd _WF_batch_15 benjarong bowl enamel enamelled glazed hard-paste porcelain moulded porcelain

Citation for print

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


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025)
            "Benjarong bowl decorated with Buddhist figures, Chinese "
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-3009669774 Accessed: 2025-12-05 12:46:31

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-3009669774
            |title=Benjarong bowl decorated with Buddhist figures, Chinese 
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-05 12:46:31|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-183235

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/aa29/C_14_2008.jpg"
        alt="Bowl"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Benjarong bowl decorated with Buddhist figures, Chinese </figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>