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shallow dish with small flat rim; painted orange and brown; central organic scrolling design; brown rim with orange dots and zigzags; character(?) repeated 5 times around rim, 3 times on bottom

Dish, 3rd-2nd century BCE

China

G215

long narrow form; constructed out of a single piece of wood with rectangular hole cut in the underside serving as the sound box; top is slightly convex; sides flat; neck slightly raised; tiger's face with large eyes, flaring nostrils, flattened ears, wide curved mouth carved at one end; tiger's head is pierced with large square opening, designed to hold the single string anchor, and five small holes for pegs; covered overall with black lacquer; painted with a fine red cross-hatched design on top and sides; sides decorated with frieze of 5 black dragons with elongated arched bodies, long tails, thin legs and gold wings; another dragon on top of neck; narrow bands of black diamonds on a solid red ground at edges; fingerboard painted with 4 groups of symmetrically confronting double-headed dragons with snakelike bodies between human-faced dragon figures and either end

Zither (Qin), 5th century BCE

China

G215

shallow container with ribbed exterior; 3 decorative feet; lacquer handle with bronze fittings; red container with black on bottom; has storage box

Bale-handled wash basin with legs, 15th century

Unknown Japanese

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