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Chinese bronze vase with taotie faces

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An image of Vase. Bronze, cast and decorated with a band of taotie monster faces in cloisonné enamel on both neck and belly of the vase. Height (whole) 21 cm, width 12 cm, circa 1900-1940. Chinese.

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Vase. Bronze, cast and decorated with a band of taotie monster faces in cloisonné enamel on both neck and belly of the vase. Height (whole) 21 cm, width 12 cm, circa 1900-1940. Chinese.

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  • Accession Number: O.1-2006
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/29.0
  • Focal length: 135
  • Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 1024 pixels
  • Image width: 683 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 419.42kB
  • Exposure time: 1/60
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 29/1
  • Captured: 2007:04:04 23:06:41

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20th Century Chinese cloisonne enamel enamelled Fitz_AA t'ao t'ieh taotie mask vase

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