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Leather Bag-Shaped Flask with Cover

916–1125
(916-1125)
earthenware with green glaze
Overall: 23.5 x 17.5 x 13.8 cm (9 1/4 x 6 7/8 x 5 7/16 in.)
Weight: 1.32 kg (2.91 lbs.)
Gift of Donna and James Reid 2012.448.2
Location: 239 Chinese Ceramics and Metalwork
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Description

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.
Leather Bag-Shaped Flask with Cover

Leather Bag-Shaped Flask with Cover

916–1125

Northeast China, Liao dynasty (916-1125)

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