Chinese vase decorated with flowering scrolls

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Vase. With flowering scrolls. Hard paste porcelain, decorated in underglaze blue, height 27.4 cm, Late 15th or early 16th century. Chinese. Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).

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Accession Number: C.10-1968
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 764 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 486.02kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2012:10:17 14:25:02

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15th Century 16th Century blue and white ceramics Chinese Fitz_AA floral flowers glazed hard-paste porcelain Ming Dynasty porcelain scrolls studio ceramics underglaze vase

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