Chinese bowl with 'cafe-au-lait' wheel cut out with birds, insects and plants

An image of Bowl. Unknown production, China. Circular bowl, with deep sides and everted rim, standing on a foot ring. Decorated inside underglaze in blue and outside in underglaze 'cafe-au-lait' wheel cut out with birds, insects and plants. The wheel cutting is European or Indo-Persian. Two cracks extending downwards from the rim, several small chips in the rim, and one chip in the foot rim. Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze colour, height, 7.4 cm, diameter, 16.5 cm, Kangxi Period (1662-1722).

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Bowl. Unknown production, China. Circular bowl, with deep sides and everted rim, standing on a foot ring. Decorated inside underglaze in blue and outside in underglaze 'cafe-au-lait' wheel cut out with birds, insects and plants. The wheel cutting is European or Indo-Persian. Two cracks extending downwards from the rim, several small chips in the rim, and one chip in the foot rim. Hard-paste porcelain, underglaze colour, height, 7.4 cm, diameter, 16.5 cm, Kangxi Period (1662-1722).

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Accession Number: C.29-1985
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 769 pixels
Image width: 873 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 394.28kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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17th Century 18th Century AD blue blue and white bowl ceramics Chinese Fitz_AA glazed hard-paste porcelain K'ang Hsi Kangxi porcelain underglaze

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