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Dish with Recumbent Elephant Surrounded by Clouds

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Stoneware with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration, Vietnam
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Friends of Asian Art Gifts 1998
Title: Dish with Recumbent Elephant Surrounded by Clouds
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Stoneware with underglaze cobalt-blue decoration, Vietnam.

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