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Vase with animal-mask handles
From the thirteenth century onward, Chinese archaistic bronzes were highly prized in East Asia. A faithful copy of an archaic wine vessel, this vase is among hundreds of bronze vessels salvaged from the wreck of a trade ship off the coast of Sinan (Jeollanam-do Province, Republic of Korea). According to the wooden cargo tablets found in the wreck, the ship departed from Qingyuan (now Ningbo, Zhejiang Province) in about 1323 and was bound for Hakata (Fukuoka, Japan).
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