Chinese square iron red dish with cranes and trigrams

An image of Square iron red dish. Production Place: China. With cranes and trigrams (chip to rim and old restoration, rubbing to red on interior, another chip at foot corner), diameter 12.8 cm. Jiajing period (1522-1566).

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Square iron red dish. Production Place: China. With cranes and trigrams (chip to rim and old restoration, rubbing to red on interior, another chip at foot corner), diameter 12.8 cm. Jiajing period (1522-1566).

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Accession Number: C.20-2017
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Sam Cole
Image height: 711 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
Filesize: 95.80kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:03:27 14:50:32

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16th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_OPAC_pending birds ceramics Chinese dish Fitz_AA porcelain red square

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