Chinese jade octagonal bowl carved with lotus flowers

An image of Bowl. Octagonal bowl with eight ring ornaments on eight bracket feet. The rim is decorated with a band of lotus flowers and the handles as a pair of pierced lotus with suspending rings. Jadeite, height 6 cm, length 21 cm, 1800-1900, Chinese.

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Bowl. Octagonal bowl with eight ring ornaments on eight bracket feet. The rim is decorated with a band of lotus flowers and the handles as a pair of pierced lotus with suspending rings. Jadeite, height 6 cm, length 21 cm, 1800-1900, Chinese.

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Accession Number: O.16-1951
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/29.0
Focal length: 135
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 685 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 80.33kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 29/1
Captured: 2008:05:15 09:56:30

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19th Century bowl carved Chinese Fitz_AA green jade jadeite lotus lotus flower octagonal rings

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