Chinese Jun ware saucer dish

An image of Saucer dish. Jun ware. Circular, with shallow curved sides, standing on a narrow footring. Oval label printed in black with a tower and 'Malcolm Collection' and inscribed in blue black ink 'D./76'. Oval printed in black 'Oriental Ceramic Society 19 Exhibition'. Inscribed in green '52' and '3'. There are four gold repairs to the rim, three chips in the footring, and several long craze lines in the glaze on the interior. Stoneware, covered in a pale blue glaze shading to pale purplish brown at the rim, and having a purplish blue circular marking in the centre of the inside, and three blue streaks further out, height 4.3 cm, diameter 18.1 cm. Northern Song (960-1127). Chinese. Acquisition Credit: Lent to the museum by Helen H. L. Whittow (nee Malcolm).

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Saucer dish. Jun ware. Circular, with shallow curved sides, standing on a narrow footring. Oval label printed in black with a tower and 'Malcolm Collection' and inscribed in blue black ink 'D./76'. Oval printed in black 'Oriental Ceramic Society 19 Exhibition'. Inscribed in green '52' and '3'. There are four gold repairs to the rim, three chips in the footring, and several long craze lines in the glaze on the interior. Stoneware, covered in a pale blue glaze shading to pale purplish brown at the rim, and having a purplish blue circular marking in the centre of the inside, and three blue streaks further out, height 4.3 cm, diameter 18.1 cm. Northern Song (960-1127). Chinese. Acquisition Credit: Lent to the museum by Helen H. L. Whittow (nee Malcolm).

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Accession Number: ML.26-1992
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/39.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Andrew Norman
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Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 59.08kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 39/1
Captured: 2016:05:18 16:13:18

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