Chinese engraved dish, with a pheasant and anhua dragons

An image of Large Engraved Dish. Famille verte. Unknown Maker. Hard-paste porcelain painted in an enamel palette of two greens, turquoise, iron-red, aubergine, yellow, and black enhanced with gilding. Carved with anhua dragons with a pheasant on rockwork. Height, whole, 7.2 cm, diameter, whole, 46.8 cm, circa 1662-1722. Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Kangxi Period (1662-1722).

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Large Engraved Dish. Famille verte. Unknown Maker. Hard-paste porcelain painted in an enamel palette of two greens, turquoise, iron-red, aubergine, yellow, and black enhanced with gilding. Carved with anhua dragons with a pheasant on rockwork. Height, whole, 7.2 cm, diameter, whole, 46.8 cm, circa 1662-1722. Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Kangxi Period (1662-1722).

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Accession Number: C.11-1978
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 848 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 833.53kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2011:09:05 20:57:24

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17th Century 18th Century birds Chinese dish dragons enamel enamelled engraved engraving famille verte Fitz_AA floral flowers gilded green hard-paste porcelain K'ang Hsi Kangxi outcrop pheasant porcelain Qing Dynasty

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