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Tower Surrounded by a Moat

1st-2nd century

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Tower Surrounded by a Moat

1st-2nd century

Physical Qualities Earthenware with green lead glaze, 22 1/2 x 17 x 16 5/8 in. (57.2 x 43.2 x 42.2 cm.)
Credit Line Purchase with exchange funds from Julius Levy Memorial Fund
Object Number 1988.640
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1988; Christie's, New York
Christie's, New York, Sale 6720, 12/1/1988 sale, lot 169, pp. 88-89.
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Chinese Mortuary Ceramics from the Collection," December 2008-December 2009.
Frances Klapthor, Chinese Ceramics, Baltimore: BMA, 1993, no. 4, p. 14, ill. p. 15.

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