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Chinese blue and white globular bowl with flower scrolls

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An image of Bowl. A rare blue and white globular bowl with flower scroll (slightly blurred, glaze-flake to rim, glaze with unpleasant crackle to base), diameter 9.8 cm. Production Place: China. Xuande period (1426-1435).

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Bowl. A rare blue and white globular bowl with flower scroll (slightly blurred, glaze-flake to rim, glaze with unpleasant crackle to base), diameter 9.8 cm. Production Place: China. Xuande period (1426-1435).

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  • Accession Number: C.16-2017
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 1017 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 111.36kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1

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15th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_OPAC_pending blue blue and white bowl ceramics Chinese Fitz_AA floral flowers globe globular

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