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Chinese porcelain bowl with English silver mounts

Image attached to OC.4A-1938

An image of Bowl. Hard-paste porcelain, blue and white, painted with flower sprays, birds and horses and mounted with an English silver gilt rim, foot and straps. Elizabethan (1558-1603). Chinese, Ming Dynasty (1368-1643). Made for export to Europe.

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Bowl. Hard-paste porcelain, blue and white, painted with flower sprays, birds and horses and mounted with an English silver gilt rim, foot and straps. Elizabethan (1558-1603). Chinese, Ming Dynasty (1368-1643). Made for export to Europe.

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  • Accession Number: OC.4A-1938
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/22.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 780 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
  • Filesize: 184.10kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 22/1

Key words

16th Century Chinese Department Elizabethan English Fitz_AA Material Medium Ming Dynasty Nationalities Silver Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_OPACtd _WF_PCtd animals birds blue and white bowl ceramics glazed hard-paste porcelain horses mount porcelain silver-gilt

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rgb(196,211,203), rgb(53,87,90), rgb(143,131,75), rgb(187,184,122), rgb(121,155,152), rgb(105,87,48), rgb(232,236,212), rgb(68,152,185), rgb(90,172,196), rgb(151,138,106), rgb(153,162,153)

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