Chinese Wucai jar with mythical horses below peony scroll

An image of Wucai jar with mythical horses below peony scroll, with unusual olive green (very fine mark and superb colour), height 12 cm. Production Place: China. Jiajing period (1522-1566).

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Wucai jar with mythical horses below peony scroll, with unusual olive green (very fine mark and superb colour), height 12 cm. Production Place: China. Jiajing period (1522-1566).

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Accession Number: C.18-2017
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1059 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
Filesize: 123.29kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1

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16th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_OPAC_pending ceramics Chinese Fitz_AA horses jar Medium polychrome porcelain red wucai

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