Bodiless ware bowl, with an-hua decoration

An image of Bowl. Pottery. “Bodiless” ware bowl, semi-ovoid, with an-hua decoration. Scratched mark of Yongle inside base. Firing cracks. Diameter 20.3 cm, 1402-1424. Inscription: mark; inside base; scratched; mark of Yongle; Possibly signifying that the bowl was made during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (1402-1424). Acquisition Credit: Lent to the museum by Helen H. L. Whittow (nee Malcolm).

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Bowl. Pottery. “Bodiless” ware bowl, semi-ovoid, with an-hua decoration. Scratched mark of Yongle inside base. Firing cracks. Diameter 20.3 cm, 1402-1424. Inscription: mark; inside base; scratched; mark of Yongle; Possibly signifying that the bowl was made during the reign of the Yongle Emperor (1402-1424). Acquisition Credit: Lent to the museum by Helen H. L. Whittow (nee Malcolm).

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Accession Number: ML.30-1992
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
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Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 49.56kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2016:05:18 16:08:53

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