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Korean conical earthenware cup

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An image of Vessel/Cup. A conical cup of hard thin black earthenware with four zones of incised waves on a near spherical hollow knop, and triangular windows on a two-zone splayed hollow foot. The cup decorated with four thin loops, three of these carrying two chain-links and a triangular pendant, all of black ceramic. 400-599 AD. Early Silla Period. Korean.

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Vessel/Cup. A conical cup of hard thin black earthenware with four zones of incised waves on a near spherical hollow knop, and triangular windows on a two-zone splayed hollow foot. The cup decorated with four thin loops, three of these carrying two chain-links and a triangular pendant, all of black ceramic. 400-599 AD. Early Silla Period. Korean.

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  • Accession Number: C.5-2014
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/27.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 768 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 230.86kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 27/1

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