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Kakiemon style octagon soup plate

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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

Key words

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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rgb(188,187,182), rgb(61,66,66), rgb(133,73,41), rgb(88,88,86), rgb(107,120,119), rgb(159,126,108), rgb(233,226,219), rgb(136,131,133), rgb(67,164,147), rgb(217,229,229), rgb(76,138,165)

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