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Chinese lacquer dish depicting a dragon

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An image of Lacquer dish with inlaid incised decoration, depicting a dragon. Diamter 20.8 cm, 1596. Wanli Period (1573-1620). Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Chinese.

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Lacquer dish with inlaid incised decoration, depicting a dragon. Diamter 20.8 cm, 1596. Wanli Period (1573-1620). Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Chinese.

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  • Accession Number: O.1-1965
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/32.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 934 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 0.99MB
  • Exposure time: 1/90
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 32/1
  • Captured: 2009:07:08 00:45:04

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16th Century Chinese circular dish dragons Fitz_AA incised inlaid inlay lacquer lacquered Ming Dynasty red round Wanli Period

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