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Blue glass pan dish with engraved and Perhaps because of the far-reaching development
gilt designs of ceramics, few glass vessels of indigenous manufac-
ture have been discovered in China. When glass
7
(
Height 2.2 A), diam. 15.5 (6'/«)
have been found, the
often
context is very
Islamic, probably from Nishapur, ninth century CE vessels Buddhist or aristocratic, or both. Ma Wen-
either
From the pagoda of the Famen Monastery at Fufeng,
kuan, writing in 1994, notes over thirty vessels from
Shaanxi Province
eleven sites, not including pieces found in Xinjiang
Famensi Museum, Fufeng, Shaanxi Province province at sites along the former Silk Road. Silk
paintings discovered early this century in Cave 17
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