Yuan Dynasty jar with mandarin ducks

An image of Guan Jar. Painted underglaze in blue with mandarin ducks swimming between lotus and other aquatic plants. Hard paste porcelain, height 30.5cm, circa 1330-1368. Chinese. Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). Made for Chinese domestic market.

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Guan Jar. Painted underglaze in blue with mandarin ducks swimming between lotus and other aquatic plants. Hard paste porcelain, height 30.5cm, circa 1330-1368. Chinese. Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368). Made for Chinese domestic market.

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Accession Number: OC.93-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 859 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 286.59kB
Exposure time: 1/45
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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