Chinese stoneware bowl with slip decoration in the form of a flower

An image of White stoneware bowl. Tz'u chou ware. Unknown production, China. With an incised and combed white slip decoration, in the form of a flower. Stoneware, slip-coated, incised, height 7 cm, diameter 21.6 cm. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Acquisition Credit: Given by Oscar Raphael.

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White stoneware bowl. Tz'u chou ware. Unknown production, China. With an incised and combed white slip decoration, in the form of a flower. Stoneware, slip-coated, incised, height 7 cm, diameter 21.6 cm. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Acquisition Credit: Given by Oscar Raphael.

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Accession Number: OC.65-1936
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 951 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 98.86kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2012:09:24 15:13:43

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bowl Chinese Cizhou ware combed combing Fitz_AA floral flowers incised incising pottery slip slipware Song Dynasty stoneware Sung Dynasty Tz'u chou ware white

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