Chinese lacquer dish with two long tailed birds

An image of Dish. Circular dish, with deep carving through black lacquer to a buff ground. Depicting two long tailed birds amid foliage and flowers. Carved, diameter 32 cm, 14th century. Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). Chinese.

Terms of use

The low-resolution images published on this Website are made available under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY-NC-ND). For more details: Fitzwilliam Terms of Use

This licence does not include any images of works that are still in copyright. Artistic copyright extends from the life of the artist to 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the artist died.

Download this image

For further information on use of images or to license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who can discuss terms and fees.

Dish. Circular dish, with deep carving through black lacquer to a buff ground. Depicting two long tailed birds amid foliage and flowers. Carved, diameter 32 cm, 14th century. Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). Chinese.

Image data

Accession Number: O.4-1970
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Image Library; Fitzwilliam Museum
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 926 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 695.05kB
Exposure time: 1/90
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2009:07:08 00:40:49

Key words

14th Century birds black carved carving Chinese circular dish Fitz_AA floral flowers foliage foliate lacquer lacquered round Yuan Dynasty

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025)
            "Chinese lacquer dish with two long tailed birds"
            Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-2014528936 Accessed: 2025-12-05 18:43:00

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/image/media-2014528936
            |title=Chinese lacquer dish with two long tailed birds
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2025-12-05 18:43:00|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/images/media-207397

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/O_4_1970_200907_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Dish"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Chinese lacquer dish with two long tailed birds</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>