Famille rose inkwell, Bow Porcelain Factory

An image of Inkwell. Bow Porcelain Manufactory, Essex, Stratford-le-Bow. The cylindrical inkwell has flat shoulders, pierced with five holes for pens, and a short, cylindrical neck. The top is inscribed around the shoulders in capital letters in manganese ‘MADE AT NEW CANTON 1750’. The sides are painted in famille-rose style after a Kakiemon original, with bamboo and scrolling prunus branches growing from banded hedge. Soft-paste porcelain painted overglaze in enamels, tin-glazed, height, whole, 5.5 cm, diameter, whole, 9 cm, dated 1750. Famille Rose. Kakiemon.

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Inkwell. Bow Porcelain Manufactory, Essex, Stratford-le-Bow. The cylindrical inkwell has flat shoulders, pierced with five holes for pens, and a short, cylindrical neck. The top is inscribed around the shoulders in capital letters in manganese ‘MADE AT NEW CANTON 1750’. The sides are painted in famille-rose style after a Kakiemon original, with bamboo and scrolling prunus branches growing from banded hedge. Soft-paste porcelain painted overglaze in enamels, tin-glazed, height, whole, 5.5 cm, diameter, whole, 9 cm, dated 1750. Famille Rose. Kakiemon.

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Accession Number: C.8-1951
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 869 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 136.57kB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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18th Century Artist/Maker Artistic Movement Bow Porcelain Factory Date English Georgian Kakiemon Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Rosaceae Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd bamboo ceramics cylindrical famille rose floral flowers glazed inkstand inkwell inscribed inscriptions porcelain prunus soft-paste porcelain studio ceramics tin-glazed writing

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