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Bottle with Lobed “Garlic Head” Mouth

Bottle with Lobed “Garlic Head” Mouth

Chinese

Compressed globular bottle with long neck, lobed mouth resembling a head of garlic, and short circular footring; gray earthenware with lightly burnished surface and abstract decoration created through heavier burnishing.

Gray earthenware

Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE

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