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Wide-mouthed jar

Wide-mouthed jar

Chinese

Large ovoid jar with wide mouth, broad shoulders, sides tapering in toward a small flat base, and with two small movable ring handles on the shoulders; the upper body carved with a wide band of vertical ribs, the shoulders decorated with a thin band of ribs, interrupted on either side by a small panel of spiral designs enclosing a ring handle; light gray stoneware with thin natural ash glaze on the upper portion.

Proto porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze

Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE

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