Chinese porcelain plate with asters

An image of Plate. Unknown production, China. Decorated with asters in petal shaped panels at the border, enclosing five similar flower heads amongst a dense whorled pattern at the centre. There are peculiar scroll designs on the back in a very stylised manner. There is an encircled leaf mark on the base. The design was especially popular in the Middle East. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, height 3.8, cm, diameter 27.2 cm, 1600-1699. Kangxi Period (1662-1722).

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Plate. Unknown production, China. Decorated with asters in petal shaped panels at the border, enclosing five similar flower heads amongst a dense whorled pattern at the centre. There are peculiar scroll designs on the back in a very stylised manner. There is an encircled leaf mark on the base. The design was especially popular in the Middle East. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, height 3.8, cm, diameter 27.2 cm, 1600-1699. Kangxi Period (1662-1722).

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Accession Number: OC.2-1943
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 158.49kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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17th Century Asteraceae asterales Asters blue blue and white ceramics Chinese Fitz_AA floral flowers glazed hard-paste porcelain K'ang Hsi Kangxi petals plate porcelain underglaze whorled

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