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Dish

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An image of Description: Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, iron-red and gilding. The dish has an uneven, everted rim, and shallow rounded sides springing from a low, slightly tapered foot. The interior well is decorated with two ho-ho birds, one standing and one in flight amongst peonies and flowers. The cavetto and rim are decorated with three panels containing solid gilt circles interspersed with a profusion of flower heads, and gilt edged rim. The under side has three prunus branches in underglaze blue, iron-red and gilt. The glazed base has a single line blue circle and four spur marks.
Technique Description : hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, iron-red and gilding 
Dimensions: diameter: (whole): 24.3 cm 
Period: Edo (Japanese period, 1615-1868)
Date: circa 1700 to 1800

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Description: Dish. Hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, iron-red and gilding. The dish has an uneven, everted rim, and shallow rounded sides springing from a low, slightly tapered foot. The interior well is decorated with two ho-ho birds, one standing and one in flight amongst peonies and flowers. The cavetto and rim are decorated with three panels containing solid gilt circles interspersed with a profusion of flower heads, and gilt edged rim. The under side has three prunus branches in underglaze blue, iron-red and gilt. The glazed base has a single line blue circle and four spur marks. Technique Description : hard-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, iron-red and gilding Dimensions: diameter: (whole): 24.3 cm Period: Edo (Japanese period, 1615-1868) Date: circa 1700 to 1800

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  • Accession Number: C.741-1991
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 752 pixels
  • Image width: 760 pixels
  • Processed with: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
  • Filesize: 112.19kB

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