Chinese saucer dish with eight emblems of Buddhism

An image of Dish. Saucer dish. The dish is decorated with eight emblems of Buddhism among formalised lotus scrolls. Mark and period of Ch'eng Lua. Production Place: China. Hard-paste porcelain.

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Dish. Saucer dish. The dish is decorated with eight emblems of Buddhism among formalised lotus scrolls. Mark and period of Ch'eng Lua. Production Place: China. Hard-paste porcelain.

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Accession Number: C.6-1967
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3D II-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 925 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 715.69kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2009:06:04 13:12:21

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blue and white Buddhism Buddhist ceramics Chinese dish emblem Fitz_AA floral flowers foliage foliate glazed hard-paste porcelain lotus lotus flower lotus leaf porcelain saucer dish Zen Buddhism

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