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Ceramics from the Musi River 5

Figure 238. Jars, average height of jars 17.3 (11.4–27.1) cm. South China, Fujian Province, Southern Song to Yuan Dynasty, C12–
C14, from the Musi River, Pusri (5), Boom Baru (1) Rebo (1) sites. Catalogue Nos, Back (L to R): K2238, K2223,
K2224, K1069. Mid: K744, K1205, K2225, K932. Front: K1921, K2201, K2337, K899.

Figure 239. Jar, rim diameter 12.8 cm, probably Guangdong Figure 240. Jar, lugs decorated with monster masks at base, rim
or Fujian Province, C11–C12, from the Musi River. diameter 15.6 cm, Song or Yuan Dynasty, Fujian
Catalogue No. K1100. Province, C12–C14, from the Musi River, Pusri site.
Catalogue No. K1897.

upper rim and four very small lugs high on its shoulder very widely distributed across China but not commonly
(K1005). It was probably made in Fujian Province in the exported.
Southern Song to early-Ming Dynasties. Six short, thin, elongated storage bottles (K2407-12)
A single small (20 cm high) Cizhou ware jar from the averaging 24 (19–30) cm high were found in the Musi
Musi (Figure 245) had four small lugs and was decorated (Figure 246). Some with short brown glazed neck and
simply with wavy pink lines incised through white slip shoulder, others unglazed with larger neck and thicker
and with a watery pale olive glaze on the shoulder. It rolled rim. These were produced in the South Song or
was possibly produced in the Hebei or Henan Provinces Yuan Dynasty, Fujian Province, Quanzhou kilns. These
during the Northern Song or Jin Dynasties. However, bottles may have been used to store mercury, which was
some Cizhou-type wares were also produced in the (and still is) used to extract gold from quartz, but others
south as late as the Ming Dynasty, and the products were consider they stored wine. Our collection has eight similar

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