Chinese tall stoneware Meiping vase

An image of Tall stoneware vase. Northern Celadon type with a brownish green, finely crackled glaze. The body is grey with incised and combed decoration of stiff leaves round base below peonies and foliage. There is a leaf scroll band round the shoulder, as well as a brown mark. The lip is everted and downward sloping. The base is recessed and glazed, with kiln sand attached. The rim is unglazed. Stoneware, celadon glazed, incised, height 42.5 cm, diameter 19 cm. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Chinese.

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Tall stoneware vase. Northern Celadon type with a brownish green, finely crackled glaze. The body is grey with incised and combed decoration of stiff leaves round base below peonies and foliage. There is a leaf scroll band round the shoulder, as well as a brown mark. The lip is everted and downward sloping. The base is recessed and glazed, with kiln sand attached. The rim is unglazed. Stoneware, celadon glazed, incised, height 42.5 cm, diameter 19 cm. Song Dynasty (960-1279). Chinese.

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Accession Number: OC.66-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3D II-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 520.33kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2009:05:11 22:34:44

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celadon glazed Chinese crackled Fitz_AA flower vase glazed green incised leaves mei ping meiping Song Dynasty stoneware tall vase

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