Polychrome charger with chrysanthemum flowers

An image of Studio Ceramics. Polychrome charger of smooth grey-white stoneware. Production Place: Vietnam. Underglaze cobalt blue, then overglaze green and red enamels. Although on this dish the red has completely gone, leaving faint images. Around the cavetto are cloud shaped ogival panels with 'ghosts' of red chrysanthemum flowers, and in the well is a bird in a pomegranate tree, with bamboo. 1428-1524. Later Le Dynasty. Acquisition: Dr John Shakeshaft Bequest.

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Studio Ceramics. Polychrome charger of smooth grey-white stoneware. Production Place: Vietnam. Underglaze cobalt blue, then overglaze green and red enamels. Although on this dish the red has completely gone, leaving faint images. Around the cavetto are cloud shaped ogival panels with 'ghosts' of red chrysanthemum flowers, and in the well is a bird in a pomegranate tree, with bamboo. 1428-1524. Later Le Dynasty. Acquisition: Dr John Shakeshaft Bequest.

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Accession Number: C.30-2016
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 925 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 129.22kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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15th Century 16th Century _WF_Shakeshaft birds blue charger chrysanthemum dish Fitz_AA floral flowers glazed grenadier Later Le Dynasty overglaze polychrome pomegranate pottery stoneware studio ceramics underglaze Vietnamese

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