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Rain-Dragon Brush Rest, Chinese

Image attached to O.74-1946

An image of Bifurcated rain-dragon of translucent chalcedony with dark greyish-blue agate markings. Chinese 1800-1900.

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Bifurcated rain-dragon of translucent chalcedony with dark greyish-blue agate markings. Chinese 1800-1900.

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  • Accession Number: O.74-1946
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
  • Aperture: f/29.0
  • Focal length: 100
  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 547 pixels
  • Image width: 760 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
  • Filesize: 54.40kB
  • Exposure time: 1/100
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 29/1
  • Captured: 2008:03:04 12:13:33

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19th Century Chinese Fitz_AA Other Keywords Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_PCtd agate brush-rest calligraphy chalcedony creature dragons mythological zoomorphic

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rgb(65,66,63), rgb(244,244,244), rgb(176,136,88), rgb(150,106,56), rgb(150,148,146), rgb(194,163,136), rgb(207,185,158), rgb(193,195,196), rgb(109,140,161), rgb(218,200,191), rgb(108,132,164)

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