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Large dome shaped vessel

Large dome shaped vessel

Chinese

Dome-shaped vessel with flared mouth, short cylindrical neck, and broad flat base; incised decoration of two fish between linear borders made up of multiple short arcs lined up in a chain, and with two large characters reading “Da Ji” (great good fortune) cut in the same technique on the side opposite the fish; the mouth rim bordered with same pattern of short arcs lines; gray earthenware with incised decoration.

Gray earthenware with incised decoration

Han dynasty, Eastern Han period, 25-220 CE

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