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An image of Description: Tile. Hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue. Square. Within a double circle is, a prunus tree, pine and bamboo (the Three Friends), a rock and two swallows; in each corner there is a lozenge, one of the Eight Precious Things.
Production Notes: Chinese, K'ang Hsi
Dimensions: height: (whole): 13.2 cm, width: (whole): 13.2 cm
Period : 17th Century - early 18th Century, Kangxi Period (1662-1722)

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Description: Tile. Hard-paste porcelain painted underglaze in blue. Square. Within a double circle is, a prunus tree, pine and bamboo (the Three Friends), a rock and two swallows; in each corner there is a lozenge, one of the Eight Precious Things. Production Notes: Chinese, K'ang Hsi Dimensions: height: (whole): 13.2 cm, width: (whole): 13.2 cm Period : 17th Century - early 18th Century, Kangxi Period (1662-1722)

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Accession Number: C.3162-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 760 pixels
Image width: 758 pixels
Processed with: ACD Systems Digital Imaging
Filesize: 82.01kB

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