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lM)ll()\viiiu the luytlioloiiiciil period C-'S.")!' H. ('. to L'L'O.') H. C) ("iiiic tlir 

 ])fi-i(Ml of the " Three Aiieieiil I )yn:ist ies," the Hiji (220.') to IKK't 15. ('.), 

 the Shaii-i- (17()() to 1122 H. (J :m(l the ( hoii (1122 to 2").") H. ('.), thiriiiK 

 which the puroly native culture and institutions of China took form with- 



A BRONZE SACRIFICIAL WINE JAR OF QUADRANGULAR FORM. (HEIGHT 10 IN.) 



This wine jar Ls onc-lialf tin in an allo.v of copper according to tlie f(jrnuila from tlic Chou 

 djTiasty 'U22-255 B. C.) and l)ears a reniarkal)le in.scription provinfi it to have been made 

 in the ".-^hang fang." the court atelier of the Han in llio year A. D. 12. 



•The shapes of sacrificial ves.sels. . . have in the course of imitation become the models 

 in the later .Jade and Ceramic industries. They have thus exercised no little influence on 

 Kurojiean [lottery, the forms of which are, in their origin, not confined to the models handed 

 down h\ Greece and Koine." Hirth 



