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Circular Covered Box, the Domed Cover with Decoration of a Branch of Blossoming Plum under a Crescent Moon

Circular Covered Box, the Domed Cover with Decoration of a Branch of Blossoming Plum under a Crescent Moon

Chinese

Jizhou or Jizhou-type ware: white stoneware with clear glaze, the decoration incised and carved through the glaze before firing. Probably from the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province; possibly from the Linchuan kilns at Linchuan, Jiangxi province

Southern Song period (1127-1279) to Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)

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