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Vase with lion-head handles
Chinese archaistic bronze vases like this example were passed down by prominent Japanese aristocrats as heirlooms. The elegant vase has lion-head handles and is adorned with an archaic pattern of birds around its neck. The inscription on its original storage-box lid, written in 1676 by Hotta Masamoto, reveals that it was a gift from Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu to Hotta’s grandfather, the daimyō Masamori, during the shogun’s visit in 1634.
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