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Small, Circular, Covered Box, the Domed Cover with Decoration of a Butterfly

Small, Circular, Covered Box, the Domed Cover with Decoration of a Butterfly

Chinese

Off-white stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration applied in white slip, the decoration embellished with incising and with touches of iron-brown slip in localized areas. Possibly from the Yaozhou kilns, near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Tang dynasty, 618-907

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