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Circular Dish with Decoration of the Five Poisonous Elements Attending the Demon Queller Zhong Kui
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Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Samuel C. Davis
Title: Circular Dish with Decoration of the Five Poisonous Elements Attending the Demon Queller Zhong Kui
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