Japanese pottery tea bowl with fan designs

An image of Japanese pottery. Tea bowl. Ninsei, Japan, Kyoto. Footed tea bowl, thrown and turned, irregular but roughly circular with indentation on one side. Grey stoneware covered with a washed, crackled, creamy glaze. Decorated with black waves and fan-like designs in red, green, blue and gold. With box. Stoneware, glazed, brush painted, and gilded, height, whole, 8.20 cm, diameter, rim, 12.20, cm, largest, diameter, foot, 5.10 cm, circa 1800-circa 1899. Edo period (1615-1868) / Meiji period (1868-1912).

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Japanese pottery. Tea bowl. Ninsei, Japan, Kyoto. Footed tea bowl, thrown and turned, irregular but roughly circular with indentation on one side. Grey stoneware covered with a washed, crackled, creamy glaze. Decorated with black waves and fan-like designs in red, green, blue and gold. With box. Stoneware, glazed, brush painted, and gilded, height, whole, 8.20 cm, diameter, rim, 12.20, cm, largest, diameter, foot, 5.10 cm, circa 1800-circa 1899. Edo period (1615-1868) / Meiji period (1868-1912).

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Accession Number: C.121-1934
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 772 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 88.06kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 22/1

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19th Century bowl brush painted crackled cream Edo Period enamel enamelled fans Fitz_AA foot footed gilded gilding glazed gold Japanese Kyoto Meiji Period Ninsei painted pottery stoneware tea bowl teabowl thrown turned waves

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