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Blue glass pan dish with engraved and
gilt designs
Height 2.2 ( 7 A), diam. 15.5 (6'/«)
Islamic, probably from Nishapur, ninth century CE
From the pagoda of the Famen Monastery at Fufeng,
Shaanxi Province
Famensi Museum, Fufeng, Shaanxi Province
Perhaps because of the far-reaching development
of ceramics, few glass vessels of indigenous manufacture
have been discovered in China. When glass
vessels have been found, the context is very often
either Buddhist or aristocratic, or both. Ma Wenkuan,
writing in 1994, notes over thirty vessels from
eleven sites, not including pieces found in Xinjiang
province at sites along the former Silk Road. Silk
paintings discovered early this century in Cave 17
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