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Chinese porcelain horse

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An image of Animal figure/Horse. Hard-paste porcelain, cream enamel on biscuit, length 11.4 cm. Chinese. Kangxi Period (1662-1722).

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Animal figure/Horse. Hard-paste porcelain, cream enamel on biscuit, length 11.4 cm. Chinese. Kangxi Period (1662-1722).

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  • Accession Number: C.2-1962
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/45.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 768 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 349.24kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 200
  • Fnumber: 45/1
  • Captured: 2012:10:23 14:25:53

Key words

17th Century 18th Century animal animal figure ceramics Chinese enamel enamelled figure hard-paste porcelain horses K'ang Hsi Kangxi lemon (colour) lying lying down pale yellow porcelain reclining recumbent studio ceramics yellow

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