Chinese bowl painted with sprays of roses

An image of Bowl. Famille rose. Painted with sprays of roses. Decorated in enamel colours, one of a pair. With well rounded sides resting on a low tapered foot, and rising to an elegantly flared, lipped rim. The exterior is decorated with flowering branches extending over the rim onto the interior. With branches of rose growing on pink thorned pale green stems, the blooms in delicately shaded tones of pink, with a spray of blue single chrysanthemum to one side. Mark: six character marks of Yongzheng within double circles in underglaze blue. Production Place: China. Hard-paste porcelain, enamels, underglaze (mark), height 5.3 cm, diameter 11.1 cm. Yongzheng Period (1723-1735).

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Bowl. Famille rose. Painted with sprays of roses. Decorated in enamel colours, one of a pair. With well rounded sides resting on a low tapered foot, and rising to an elegantly flared, lipped rim. The exterior is decorated with flowering branches extending over the rim onto the interior. With branches of rose growing on pink thorned pale green stems, the blooms in delicately shaded tones of pink, with a spray of blue single chrysanthemum to one side. Mark: six character marks of Yongzheng within double circles in underglaze blue. Production Place: China. Hard-paste porcelain, enamels, underglaze (mark), height 5.3 cm, diameter 11.1 cm. Yongzheng Period (1723-1735).

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Accession Number: OC.21-1936
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 704 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 418.52kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2011:04:06 10:39:10

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18th Century bowl Chinese enamel enamelled Fitz_AA floral flowers hard-paste porcelain pink pink roses porcelain roses spray Yongzheng Period Yung Cheng

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