Chinese Jun ware bowl

An image of Bowl. Jun ware. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. Oval label printed in black with a tower and 'Malcolm Collection', inscribed in blue black ink 'D./75'. Circular, inscribed in black '21'. Stoneware, covered in a pale blue glaze shading to purplish brown at the rim, and stopping short of the foot on the exterior. Height 7.4 cm, diameter 16.5 cm, 1000-1127. Northern Song (960-1127). Chinese. Acquisition Credit: Lent to the museum by Helen H. L. Whittow (nee Malcolm).

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Bowl. Jun ware. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. Oval label printed in black with a tower and 'Malcolm Collection', inscribed in blue black ink 'D./75'. Circular, inscribed in black '21'. Stoneware, covered in a pale blue glaze shading to purplish brown at the rim, and stopping short of the foot on the exterior. Height 7.4 cm, diameter 16.5 cm, 1000-1127. Northern Song (960-1127). Chinese. Acquisition Credit: Lent to the museum by Helen H. L. Whittow (nee Malcolm).

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Accession Number: ML.22-1992
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 823 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 67.12kB
Exposure time: 1/180
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1

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