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Large ovoid jar with ideographs

Large ovoid jar with ideographs

Chinese

Large ovoid jar with short neck, broad shoulders, and sides tapering inward to a small flat circular base; red earthenware with fabric-impressed decoration and incised ideographs on the shoulder reading “duo huang”.

Red earthenware

Zhou dynasty, Warring States period, 475-221 BCE

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