Chinese porcelain bowl with English silver mounts

An image of Bowl. Hard-paste porcelain, blue and white, painted with flower sprays, birds and horses and mounted with an English silver gilt rim, foot and straps. Elizabethan (1558-1603). Chinese, Ming Dynasty (1368-1643). Made for export to Europe.

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Bowl. Hard-paste porcelain, blue and white, painted with flower sprays, birds and horses and mounted with an English silver gilt rim, foot and straps. Elizabethan (1558-1603). Chinese, Ming Dynasty (1368-1643). Made for export to Europe.

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Accession Number: OC.4A-1938
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 780 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 184.10kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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16th Century Chinese Department Elizabethan English Fitz_AA Material Medium Ming Dynasty Nationalities Silver Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd animals birds blue and white bowl ceramics glazed hard-paste porcelain horses mount porcelain silver-gilt

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