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Chinese porcelain box and cover

Image attached to OC.49 & A-1946

An image of Box and cover. Hard-paste porcelain with incised decoration underglaze, height, whole, 8.0 cm, diameter, whole, 8.3 cm. Chinese. Made for Arab or Indonesian market?

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Box and cover. Hard-paste porcelain with incised decoration underglaze, height, whole, 8.0 cm, diameter, whole, 8.3 cm. Chinese. Made for Arab or Indonesian market?

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  • Accession Number: OC.49-1946
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/45.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 956 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 81.84kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 45/1
  • Captured: 2012:12:14 11:10:24

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Chinese Department Fitz_AA Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Predominant Colours Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_PCtd box container cover glazed hard-paste porcelain incised lidded porcelain underglaze white

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