Chinese Blanc de Chine Kendi

An image of Blanc De Chine. Kendi. Pouring vessel. Globular body with flat shoulders and raised supporting long tubular neck with over-hanging slanting disc-shaped ridge. The bulb form spout has a small nipple opening, and wide base rim on recessed base. Circa 1620. Chinese.

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Blanc De Chine. Kendi. Pouring vessel. Globular body with flat shoulders and raised supporting long tubular neck with over-hanging slanting disc-shaped ridge. The bulb form spout has a small nipple opening, and wide base rim on recessed base. Circa 1620. Chinese.

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Accession Number: C.158-2010
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 313.81kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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17th Century blanc de Chine ceramics Chinese Dehua porcelain Fitz_AA glazed globe globular kendi khendi porcelain spout spouted studio ceramics vessel white

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