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Chinese Wucai saucer dish

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An image of Dish. Production Place: China. A wucai saucer dish, peach tree as Shou (longevity) character (flaking to yellow enamels, slight warp), diameter 14.8 cm. Jiajing period (1522-1566).

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Dish. Production Place: China. A wucai saucer dish, peach tree as Shou (longevity) character (flaking to yellow enamels, slight warp), diameter 14.8 cm. Jiajing period (1522-1566).

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  • Accession Number: C.24-2017
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
  • Photographer name: Katie Young
  • Image height: 920 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 110.49kB
  • Exposure time: 1/45
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1

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16th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_OPAC_pending blue ceramics Chinese dish enamel enamelled Fitz_AA Medium polychrome porcelain red saucer dish wucai

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