Chinese libation cup or lamp, formed as a goose

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Libation cup or lamp. Formed as a goose with neck and head turned over its back to form the handle. The whole covered with a pale green glaze much silvered with age. Earthenware, height 7.6 cm, width 7.6 cm, length 12.7 cm, circa 618 to 907 AD. T’ang Dynasty. Chinese.

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Accession Number: OC.16-1946
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3D II-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 559.34kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2009:05:19 05:44:33

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anthropomorphic birds Chinese cup earthenware Fitz_AA geese glazed goose green lamp libation cup lighting T'ang Dynasty Tang Dynasty

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