Kakiemon style octagon soup plate

An image of Plate/Octagon Soup Plate. Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory. Painted in enamels in Kakiemon style with 'Hob in the Well' pattern. Soft-paste porcelain, lead-glazed, decorated in the Kakiemon style in polychrome enamels, height, whole, 4.7 cm, diameter, whole, 22.0 cm, circa 1752- 1755. Raised anchor or early red anchor period. Kakiemon Style.

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Plate/Octagon Soup Plate. Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory. Painted in enamels in Kakiemon style with 'Hob in the Well' pattern. Soft-paste porcelain, lead-glazed, decorated in the Kakiemon style in polychrome enamels, height, whole, 4.7 cm, diameter, whole, 22.0 cm, circa 1752- 1755. Raised anchor or early red anchor period. Kakiemon Style.

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Accession Number: C.17-1983
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 978 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 234.85kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1

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18th Century Artist/Maker Artistic Movement Chelsea Porcelain Factory Date Department English Fitz_AA Georgian Kakiemon Material Medium Object Type Oriental Style Orientalism Other Keywords Red Anchor Period Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd ceramics costume enamel enamelled figures gilded glazed lead-glazed octagonal on-glazed overglaze painted plate porcelain soft-paste porcelain well

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