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Chinese Qingbai ware bowl

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An image of Bowl. Qingbai ware. Circular, with deep, gently curving sides, standing on a footring. The glaze inside the bowl is speckled with black, particularly in the centre. Oval label printed in black with a tower and 'Malcolm Collection' and inscribed in blue black ink 'D./36'. Porcelain covered with very pale greenish blue glaze, except for approximately 7 cm on both sides of the rim. Height 4.7 cm, diameter 10.5 cm, 1100-1299. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Chinese. Acquisition Credit: Lent to the museum by Helen H. L. Whittow (nee Malcolm).

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Bowl. Qingbai ware. Circular, with deep, gently curving sides, standing on a footring. The glaze inside the bowl is speckled with black, particularly in the centre. Oval label printed in black with a tower and 'Malcolm Collection' and inscribed in blue black ink 'D./36'. Porcelain covered with very pale greenish blue glaze, except for approximately 7 cm on both sides of the rim. Height 4.7 cm, diameter 10.5 cm, 1100-1299. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Chinese. Acquisition Credit: Lent to the museum by Helen H. L. Whittow (nee Malcolm).

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  • Accession Number: ML.24-1992
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/27.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 754 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 58.07kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 27/1
  • Captured: 2016:05:13 14:55:31

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