Chinese meiping with palmate leaf design, Tz'u chou ware

An image of Vase/meiping. Tz'u chou ware. Unknown production, China. Grey stoneware vase, with a slender ovoid body, covered with a greenish brown glaze. The vase has a short neck with sloping ridge, and is incised with an overlapping palmate leaf design. Stoneware, glazed, incised, height 40.3 cm, diameter 19.1 cm. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Acquisition Credit: O.C. Raphael Bequest.

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Vase/meiping. Tz'u chou ware. Unknown production, China. Grey stoneware vase, with a slender ovoid body, covered with a greenish brown glaze. The vase has a short neck with sloping ridge, and is incised with an overlapping palmate leaf design. Stoneware, glazed, incised, height 40.3 cm, diameter 19.1 cm. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Acquisition Credit: O.C. Raphael Bequest.

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Accession Number: OC.65-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 636 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 427.54kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2012:10:16 15:49:05

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AD brown Chinese Cizhou ware Fitz_AA glazed incised mei ping meiping ovoid palm leaves palmate palms pottery Song Dynasty stoneware Sung Dynasty Tz'u chou ware vase

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