A Chinese earthenware jar with applied-relief decoration under a green glaze, made during the Northern Qi Dynasty (550–577 AD). Four decorations of Central Asian men's faces surrounded by pearl-shaped nobs can be seen on this jar which is influenced by Khotanese ceramics as well as Buddhist art, the latter represented in the elongated earlobes of the four heads.
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Self-made at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.