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Broad-Shouldered Bottle with Tortoiseshell Glaze

Broad-Shouldered Bottle with Tortoiseshell Glaze

Chinese

Jizhou-type ware, probably Tushan ware: light gray stoneware with variegated brown and amber glazes over a white slip ground, the lower portion of the bottle coated with dark russet slip. Probably from the kilns at Tushan, Sichuan province.

Southern Song period (1127-1279) to Yuan dynasty (1279-1368)

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