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Jar with brown dots

Jar with brown dots

Chinese

Small jar with rounded sides, short neck, rolled mouth rim, four squared lug handles evenly spaced around the shoulder; gray stoneware with olive-green glaze; iron-brown touched on over the glaze in irregularly shaped dots of different sizes around the body, on the lug handles, between the lug handles, and around the rim; glaze stops short of the foot. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area of northeastern Zhejiang province.

Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze and overglaze decoration

Jin dynasty, Eastern Jin period, 317-420

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