Chinese ting ware dish with flowers and fish

An image of Saucer Dish. Ting ware. Dish with a circular foot and bronze rim. Design stamped. Decorated in high relief in the centre with a lotus leaf, flowers and water weeds, on wavy ground. Around this is a band of wave pattern, with four fishes, lotus, and other water plants in high relief. Porcelain, bronze rim, height 3.5 cm, width 19.1 cm. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Chinese.

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Saucer Dish. Ting ware. Dish with a circular foot and bronze rim. Design stamped. Decorated in high relief in the centre with a lotus leaf, flowers and water weeds, on wavy ground. Around this is a band of wave pattern, with four fishes, lotus, and other water plants in high relief. Porcelain, bronze rim, height 3.5 cm, width 19.1 cm. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Chinese.

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Accession Number: OC.35-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3D II-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 950 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 619.16kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2009:06:04 10:57:03

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aquatic plants bronze Chinese dish fish Fitz_AA floral flowers glazed lotus lotus flower lotus petal plants plate porcelain relief saucer dish Song Dynasty stamp stamped Ting ware water plants white

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