Stoneware vase with sgraffito, <i> meiping </i>. Oven type Cizou. Xia dynasty (1038-1227). Stoneware decorated with champleve engobe. Guimet Museum. Legs Michel Calmann, 1977, MA 4266. This vase shape, <i> meiping </i> (literally "plum vase") was originally intended to contain alcohol .. Next - in the context of a literate culture of cultivated people - a branch of plum tree is placed there. : Abstract extracts from a museum cartel.
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