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Painted Brown Glazed
Pottery Bell
Han Dynasty
(206 B.C - A.D. 220)
This is an item of
funerary ware. Han pottery
bells derive their shape
from vase-shaped bronze
wine vessels of the Shang
and Chou. In the Han period,
bell-shaped vessels were
made in bronze as well as
in pottery.