Chinese eight-fold foliate dish

An image of Eight-fold foliate dish. Production Place: China. Glassy grey crackled glaze. Rim bound with contemporary gilt metal. Large glazed, short and thick foot, curving inwards. Unglazed rim burnt reddish brown. Glazed convex base. Stoneware, celadon glaze, gilt metal rim, diameter 16.5 cm. Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Chinese.

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Eight-fold foliate dish. Production Place: China. Glassy grey crackled glaze. Rim bound with contemporary gilt metal. Large glazed, short and thick foot, curving inwards. Unglazed rim burnt reddish brown. Glazed convex base. Stoneware, celadon glaze, gilt metal rim, diameter 16.5 cm. Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Chinese.

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Accession Number: C.17-1978
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3D II-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 1009 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 775.29kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2009:05:12 06:23:11

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celadon glazed Chinese crackled dish Fitz_AA gilt glazed grey Ming Dynasty pottery scalloped scalloped edge stoneware

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