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Vase with tubular handles

China

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 211

Archaistic bronze design was also popular in fourteenth-century ceramic production. This vase clearly imitates bronze vases with tubular handles of the time. Such celadon objects also found their way to Japan as precious Chinese goods used in upscale interior decoration.

Vase with tubular handles, Stoneware with impressed motifs under celadon glaze (Longquan ware), China

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