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Sherd: Square Fragment from the Wall of a Circular Vessel

Sherd: Square Fragment from the Wall of a Circular Vessel

Chinese

Probably Ru ware: light gray stoneware body with pale bluish green glaze, the interior glaze with white to buff cloudiness due either to under firing or to burial (in the waste heap at the kiln site). Probably from the Ru kilns, Henan province

Song dynasty, Northern Song period, 960-1127

Fragments