Chinese Zhenwa group with acolytes

An image of Zhenwa group. Seated Zhenwa with standing military acolytes, a tortoise and snake below on complicated rockwork base. Blanc de Chine. 1575-1599. Chinese.

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Zhenwa group. Seated Zhenwa with standing military acolytes, a tortoise and snake below on complicated rockwork base. Blanc de Chine. 1575-1599. Chinese.

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Accession Number: C.149-2010
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 423.27kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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16th Century acolyte armour blanc de Chine ceramics Chinese clothes clothing costume Dehua porcelain figure figure group Fitz_AA male military porcelain soldiers studio ceramics tortoise white

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