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Mar 1, 2013
Leather Bag-Shaped Flask with Cover
Leather Bag-Shaped Flask with Cover
916-1125
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Northeast China, Liao dynasty
(916-1125)
Earthenware with green glaze
Overall: 24.5 x 16.5 x 16 cm (9 5/8 x 6 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.)
Weight: 1.3 kg (2.87 lbs.)
Gift of Donna and James Reid 2012.448.1
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Flasks like these derive their shapes from leather bags; even the edges are finely rouletted to resemble the seams of sewn leather. These were used by the nomadic Khitan people who established the Liao kingdom in Inner Mongolia, Manchuria, and North China. Such wares represented the Liao adoption of the Tang Chinese ceramic tradition, and yet they expressed ethnic identity and new innovations resulted from the cultural borrowing.
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