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Meissen figure of a trinket seller

Image attached to C.9-1954

An image of A Trinket Seller. Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Saxony. Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, height, whole, 18.7 cm, width, whole, 6.5 cm, circa 1745-1750.

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A Trinket Seller. Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, Saxony. Hard-paste porcelain painted in enamels, height, whole, 18.7 cm, width, whole, 6.5 cm, circa 1745-1750.

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  • Accession Number: C.9-1954
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/27.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 769 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 365.03kB
  • Exposure time: 1/250
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 27/1

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18th Century caps clothes clothing dress enamel enamelled fashion female Fitz_AA German hard-paste porcelain Meissen Porcelain Factory painted pink polychrome porcelain seller selling street seller trinkets vendor woman

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