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Liu, et al. <em>Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology and Architecture of the \"Wu Family Shrines\"</em>, (Princeton University Art Museum, 2005)","citation":"Cary Y. Liu, et al. <em>Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology and Architecture of the \"Wu Family Shrines\"</em>, (Princeton University Art Museum, 2005), p. 330–32","date":2005,"id":8331,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/254152310"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[{"id":12607,"period":"Western Han dynasty","alphasort":"Western Han","begindate":-206,"enddate":9,"displayperiod":"Western Han dynasty, 206 BCE–9 CE","displaydate":"206 BCE–9 CE"}],"department":"Asian Art","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199319,"term":"Asian Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"1000 B.C.-A.D 1","dateend":-1,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Hu 壺 (storage jar)","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1},{"title":"Storage jar (hu)","titletype":"Published","displayorder":2}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":"","objectnumber":"y1986-111 a-b","inscribed":null,"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"[Hung Kee Antique Shop, 2-4, Upper Laskar Row, Sheung-wan, Hong Kong]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum  with the Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund, 1986.","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"This lidded earthenware storage container imitates a vessel type that originated in bronze. 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