Chinese Tz’u chou ware vase with incised floral designs

An image of Vase. Tz’u chou ware. Buff stoneware, with incised floral designs painted in dark brown. The ground has been cut away and filled in with white. Height 29.2 cm, diameter 19.1 cm, 960-1280. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Chinese.

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Vase. Tz’u chou ware. Buff stoneware, with incised floral designs painted in dark brown. The ground has been cut away and filled in with white. Height 29.2 cm, diameter 19.1 cm, 960-1280. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Chinese.

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Accession Number: OC.6-1937
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/19.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 741 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 514.00kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 19/1
Captured: 2016:07:18 14:01:45

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