Chinese lacquer dish depicting a dragon

An image of Lacquer dish with inlaid incised decoration, depicting a dragon. Diamter 20.8 cm, 1596. Wanli Period (1573-1620). Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Chinese.

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Lacquer dish with inlaid incised decoration, depicting a dragon. Diamter 20.8 cm, 1596. Wanli Period (1573-1620). Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Chinese.

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Accession Number: O.1-1965
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 934 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 0.99MB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2009:07:08 00:45:04

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16th Century Chinese circular dish dragons Fitz_AA incised inlaid inlay lacquer lacquered Ming Dynasty red round Wanli Period

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