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Perfumer or Incense Burner Cut Down from a Zhadou-Shaped Flowerpot

Perfumer or Incense Burner Cut Down from a Zhadou-Shaped Flowerpot

Chinese

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated dark purple and blue glaze with metal fitting at the mouth; originally a 'zhadou'-shaped flower pot with the Chinese numeral 10 (shi) impressed into the base before firing

Ming dynasty, 1368-1644

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