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Wide-mouthed jar with loop handles

Wide-mouthed jar with loop handles

Chinese

Ovoid jar with wide mouth, short neck, flattened shoulders, sides tapering inward to a small, circular, flat base, and a pair of leaf-shaped loop handles rising from the shoulders; light gray stoneware with olive-green celadon glaze of even tone covering the interior and exterior, including the base, which has ten marks around its edge from a multi-pronged kiln support that elevated the object during firing; the interior floor with nine raised spurs from a kiln support for another smaller piece that would have been fired inside the jar at the time of firing. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze

Tang dynasty (618-907) to Five Dynasties period (907-960)

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