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Plate decorated with flowers and birds, from Arita

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An image of Unknown/Arita Factory. Porcelain plate. Hard-paste porcelain, decorated with flowers and birds in the centre circular cartouche and various flowers in wide border panels in underglaze blue, diameter 21.8cm, circa 1670-1690. Japan.

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Unknown/Arita Factory. Porcelain plate. Hard-paste porcelain, decorated with flowers and birds in the centre circular cartouche and various flowers in wide border panels in underglaze blue, diameter 21.8cm, circa 1670-1690. Japan.

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  • Accession Number: C.13-2008
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 100
  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 907 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 4.3 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 248.02kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1
  • Captured: 2010:05:17 12:11:22

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17th Century Arita Factory Artist/Maker Department Fitz_AA Japanese Material Other Keywords Predominant Colours Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd _WF_batch_15 birds blue and white floral flowers plate porcelain

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rgb(37,73,109), rgb(176,186,186), rgb(104,140,166), rgb(217,229,224), rgb(230,237,231), rgb(134,144,139), rgb(69,134,191), rgb(86,93,91), rgb(84,83,82), rgb(132,131,129), rgb(76,156,212)

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