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Chinese Wucai jar with mythical horses below peony scroll

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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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