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Covered pedestal dish

Covered pedestal dish

Chinese

Deep bowl with wide mouth raised on a tall stem supported on a broad circular concave foot with neatly molded upturned edge, the lower sides of the bowl with concave grooves and the well-fitted domed cover similarly grooved, the large circular platform finial also grooved and raised on a reel-shaped stem, the dark gray pottery burnished to a smooth black surface and showing scattered remains of earth encrustation and staining from burial. One of a pair with 2006.170.144.A-B.

Gray stoneware with blackened surface

Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE

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