Pair of Chinese gilded celadon jade bowls

An image of Bowl. Pale celadon jade bowls, the exteriors with four cartouches, gilded with long tailed birds, pheasants and mandarin ducks among flowers, inside gilded with dragons and foliage. The interior of the footring decorated with acanthus leaves. Nephrite, height 6.1 cm, diameter 14.9 cm 1700-1800. Chinese.

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Bowl. Pale celadon jade bowls, the exteriors with four cartouches, gilded with long tailed birds, pheasants and mandarin ducks among flowers, inside gilded with dragons and foliage. The interior of the footring decorated with acanthus leaves. Nephrite, height 6.1 cm, diameter 14.9 cm 1700-1800. Chinese.

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Accession Number: O.31A & B-1938
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/29.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 499 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 364.63kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 29/1
Captured: 2008:01:12 15:53:19

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18th Century birds bowl cartouche Chinese dragons Fitz_AA floral flowers gilded jade nephrite

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