Chinese stoneware vase with loop handles

An image of Vase. Cizhou ware. Stoneware vase with loop handles. Unknown production, China. The top half is decorated with a thick white glaze and a rudimentary brown design, which runs into a lustrous brown-black glaze on the lower half. The base has the letter Zhou written in ink. Stoneware, glazed, height 26 cm, diameter 14 cm, 1300-1368. Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368); 14th Century. Acquisition Credit: Bought from Frank Brangwyn with the Glaisher Fund.

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Vase. Cizhou ware. Stoneware vase with loop handles. Unknown production, China. The top half is decorated with a thick white glaze and a rudimentary brown design, which runs into a lustrous brown-black glaze on the lower half. The base has the letter Zhou written in ink. Stoneware, glazed, height 26 cm, diameter 14 cm, 1300-1368. Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368); 14th Century. Acquisition Credit: Bought from Frank Brangwyn with the Glaisher Fund.

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Accession Number: C.60-1934
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 683 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 405.38kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2012:09:27 13:48:29

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14th Century AD Chinese Cizhou ware Fitz_AA glazed handled handles pottery stoneware Tz'u chou ware vase Yuan Dynasty

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