Chinese Kuan type stoneware dish

An image of Dish, with a thick, very pale greyish green opaque glaze with a dark grey fine crackle. Kuan type. The dish has a wide base and straight slanting sides. Six depressions in lip to represent flower petals. Convex central surface. The body is exposed at one place on the lip, and burnt reddish brown. Short, glazed, tapering foot with unglazed rim burnt dark reddish brown. Glazed base. Celadon glazed. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Chinese.

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Dish, with a thick, very pale greyish green opaque glaze with a dark grey fine crackle. Kuan type. The dish has a wide base and straight slanting sides. Six depressions in lip to represent flower petals. Convex central surface. The body is exposed at one place on the lip, and burnt reddish brown. Short, glazed, tapering foot with unglazed rim burnt dark reddish brown. Glazed base. Celadon glazed. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Chinese.

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Accession Number: C.6-1968
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: 951 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 606.64kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2009:05:12 04:43:28

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celadon glazed Chinese crackled dish Fitz_AA glazed green grey Kuan type Medieval opaque pale green pottery Song Dynasty stoneware

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