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Covered Jar with Animal Mask Handles

1794

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Covered Jar with Animal Mask Handles

1794

Physical Qualities Stoneware with turquoise glaze, 8 1/8 H x 4 1/8 Diam. in. (20.6 x 10.5 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. W. Lehman Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland
Object Number 2005.113
Reddish brown body covered with a deep turquoise glaze; ovoid vase with horned animal mask handles and incised lotus flower and leaf scroll decoration; upright petals around foot; unglazed mouth and foot; pad of glaze on the bottm with a wide flat foot; glaze ground at foot.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2003; Dr. William L. Guyton, Cockeysville, Maryland
Frances Klapthor, "BMA Past/Future: Guyton/Chiu; Two Collections of Chinese Art," BMA, August 18, 2010-

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