Chinese blue and white globular bowl with flower scrolls

An image of Bowl. A rare blue and white globular bowl with flower scroll (slightly blurred, glaze-flake to rim, glaze with unpleasant crackle to base), diameter 9.8 cm. Production Place: China. Xuande period (1426-1435).

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Bowl. A rare blue and white globular bowl with flower scroll (slightly blurred, glaze-flake to rim, glaze with unpleasant crackle to base), diameter 9.8 cm. Production Place: China. Xuande period (1426-1435).

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Accession Number: C.16-2017
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1017 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
Filesize: 111.36kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1

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15th Century _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_OPAC_pending blue blue and white bowl ceramics Chinese Fitz_AA floral flowers globe globular

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