Chinese celadon glazed dish

An image of Dish. Unknown maker. Dark stoneware dish, with a pale greyish blue opaque glaze with light brown crackle. The dish has a wide base and slanting sides with slightly everted, six fold foliate lip. Short, glazed, tapering foot, with unglazed rim. Glazed base. Stoneware, celadon glaze, height 4.2 cm, diameter 18 cm. Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1276). Chinese.

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Dish. Unknown maker. Dark stoneware dish, with a pale greyish blue opaque glaze with light brown crackle. The dish has a wide base and slanting sides with slightly everted, six fold foliate lip. Short, glazed, tapering foot, with unglazed rim. Glazed base. Stoneware, celadon glaze, height 4.2 cm, diameter 18 cm. Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1276). Chinese.

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Accession Number: C.6-1978
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 973 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 475.57kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2012:08:07 15:04:17

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12th Century 13th Century broken celadon ceramics Chinese dish fragment glazed green pale green plate Song Dynasty stoneware turquoise

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