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Chinese Meiping vase

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An image of Meiping Vase. Production Place: China. A blue and white meiping, scholar and attendant with qin zither, firing line around lower body, height 34.5 cm, 15th century.

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Meiping Vase. Production Place: China. A blue and white meiping, scholar and attendant with qin zither, firing line around lower body, height 34.5 cm, 15th century.

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  • Accession Number: C.22-2017
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 1403 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 133.68kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1

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15th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_OPAC_pending blue blue and white ceramics Chinese figures Fitz_AA porcelain

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