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Covered Circular Box with Decoration of Four Butterflies Surrounding a Stylized Flower on a Beaded Ground

Covered Circular Box with Decoration of Four Butterflies Surrounding a Stylized Flower on a Beaded Ground

Chinese

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: molded white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze on the exterior and lead-fluxed clear glaze mottled with green on the interior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Tang dynasty, 618-907

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