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Large wide-mouthed jar

Large wide-mouthed jar

Chinese

Large globular wide-mouthed jar with short neck, broad shoulders, and sides tapering inward to a flat base; light gray stoneware with thin ash glaze over stamped decoration, the exposed body clay with reddish brown skin.

Proto porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze

Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE

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