Japanese pottery bowl with spring flowers

An image of Japanese pottery. Bowl, with lid missing. Kenzan pottery studio. Production Place: Japan, Kyoto. Jar (without the lid) of globular shape. Inset base. Buff base glaze with decoration of spring flowers, namely cherry blossom and camellias in white, red, blue, yellow, also leaves in green and black, trunk and branches in brown and black. Stoneware, thrown and turned, brush painted, height, whole, 11.70 cm, diameter, rim, 16.20 cm, diameter, bowl, 22.50 cm, diameter, base, 13.00 cm, circa 1800-circa 1899. Edo period (1615-1868) / Meiji period (1868-1912).

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Japanese pottery. Bowl, with lid missing. Kenzan pottery studio. Production Place: Japan, Kyoto. Jar (without the lid) of globular shape. Inset base. Buff base glaze with decoration of spring flowers, namely cherry blossom and camellias in white, red, blue, yellow, also leaves in green and black, trunk and branches in brown and black. Stoneware, thrown and turned, brush painted, height, whole, 11.70 cm, diameter, rim, 16.20 cm, diameter, bowl, 22.50 cm, diameter, base, 13.00 cm, circa 1800-circa 1899. Edo period (1615-1868) / Meiji period (1868-1912).

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Accession Number: C.204-1934
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 723 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 106.62kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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19th Century blooms bowl brush painted camellias Edo Period Fitz_AA floral flowers glazed globe globular Japanese Kenzan Kyoto Meiji Period painted pottery red Spring stoneware thrown turned

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