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Large Circular Offering Dish with Three Hoofed-Cabriole Legs and Stylized Lotus and Cloud Decor

Large Circular Offering Dish with Three Hoofed-Cabriole Legs and Stylized Lotus and Cloud Decor

Chinese

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel glaze on the exterior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Tang dynasty, 618-907

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