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Painted lacquer dish with cloud-and-animal pattern

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Painted lacquer dish with cloud-and-animal pattern

Western Han Dynasty (206 BC–25 AD)

Unearthed in 1972 from Dafentou M1, Yunmeng.

Height: 4 cm, mouth diameter: 18.5 cm, bottom diameter: 8 cm

Wooden core, made by lathe-turning forming. Red, brown and gold lacquer patterns adorn the inner bottom. The outer bottom needle-incised with characters “Huan Li Da Nyu Zi Ao”.