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Bowl with cobalt-blue splashes

Bowl with cobalt-blue splashes

Chinese

Circular silver-form bowl with flared lip, straight sides with raised ridge a midpoint, short footring, and decoration of blue splashes against a white ground; off-white earthenware with lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splashed glaze on the exterior and interior, glaze stops short of the foot; base unglazed. Cobalt-splashed sancai ware. From northern China, probably Henan province.

Earthenware with blue splashed lead glaze

Tang dynasty, 618-907

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