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Qing ceramics: Porcelain plate, Kangxi reign (1662-1722)

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Authors

Speiser, Werner
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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With a design of scattered flowers. Underglaze decoration in cobalt blue with enamel colours over the glaze and also dry 'iron red' which had to be baked separately in a less hot kiln. An example of the classical age of porcelain. On the base there is a reign mark of Kangxi enclosed in a double ring. -- d: 8" (Museum of Far Eastern Art, Cologne).

Keywords

China, ceramics, book scan

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/208326

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Basham Photographs

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Archives Series

Date created

1960

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This image is provided for research purposes only and must not be reproduced without the prior permission of the Archives Program, Australian National University.

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