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Chinese cornelian scabbard chape

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An image of Scabbard Chape. Red and white cornelian, undecorated, with two deep holes on the top. Height 5.3 cm, length 5.2 cm, width 2.45 cm, 400-1 B.C. Chinese.

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Scabbard Chape. Red and white cornelian, undecorated, with two deep holes on the top. Height 5.3 cm, length 5.2 cm, width 2.45 cm, 400-1 B.C. Chinese.

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  • Accession Number: O.23-1946
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/16.0
  • Focal length: 50
  • Camera: Canon EOS 5D
  • Photographer name: Michael Jones
  • Image height: 880 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 535.88kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 16/1
  • Captured: 2007:11:27 13:10:38

Key words

BC carnelian chape Chinese cornelian Fitz_AA scabbard sword guard weapon

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rgb(216,186,181), rgb(213,86,50), rgb(181,59,28), rgb(4,4,4), rgb(95,42,27), rgb(122,100,90), rgb(124,92,84), rgb(46,13,7), rgb(58,44,36), rgb(36,36,36), rgb(28,20,4)

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