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PLATE XXV
Bottle with beautiful ovoid body, slender neck with spread-
ing mouth, and flat base. Porcelain with thick finely crackled
glaze, of faint bluish tint, which stops short of the base in a
wavy line in typical T'ang fashion.
Bottles of this elegant form are seen in T'ang sculpture
and religious pictures in the hands of Bodhisattvas. Examples
will be found in illustrations of the Lung-men rock temples
and of the pictures found by Sir Aurel Stein in Chinese
Turkestan.
T'ang dynasty. H. 8- 9".
In the possession of the Misses Alexander.
