Chinese bowl painted with pink tree peony

An image of Bowl. Famille rose. Decorated in enamel colours, one of a pair. With well rounded sides resting on a low tapered foot, and rising to an elegantly flared, lipped rim. The exterior is decorated with flowering branches extending over the rim onto the interior. With sprays of pale pink tree peony intertwined with two slender olive black branches bearing clusters of yellow flowers. Mark: six character marks of Yongzheng within double circles in underglaze blue. Production Place: China. Hard-paste porcelain, enamels, underglaze (mark), height 5.3 cm, diameter 11.1 cm, circa 1723-1735. Yongzheng Period (1723-1735).

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Bowl. Famille rose. Decorated in enamel colours, one of a pair. With well rounded sides resting on a low tapered foot, and rising to an elegantly flared, lipped rim. The exterior is decorated with flowering branches extending over the rim onto the interior. With sprays of pale pink tree peony intertwined with two slender olive black branches bearing clusters of yellow flowers. Mark: six character marks of Yongzheng within double circles in underglaze blue. Production Place: China. Hard-paste porcelain, enamels, underglaze (mark), height 5.3 cm, diameter 11.1 cm, circa 1723-1735. Yongzheng Period (1723-1735).

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Accession Number: OC.22-1936
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 739 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 467.94kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2008:09:01 19:15:40

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18th Century bowl branches Chinese enamel enamelled Fitz_AA floral flowers hard-paste porcelain moutan Paeoniaceae paeony peonies peony pink porcelain spray Yongzheng Period Yung Cheng

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