Porcelain AKA Oriental Porcelain And Oriental… 1955

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Oxford Museum of Eastern Art, Oxfordshire.

Interior of a room in the museum, a man walks up some steps into a room with antique Oriental Porcelain on display. He picks up various pieces of "fragile pottery" and looks at them closely. C/U of one of the pieces which represents a man walking beside...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
15492
Sort Number:
CP 006
Time in/Out:
01:56:47:00 / 01:58:38:00
Canister:
CP 006
Film ID:
25.26
Issue Date:
07/02/1955

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