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Wooden mortar for pounding brick tea
Wooden mortar for pounding brick tea
Object Number 33-76-60/343
Display Title Wooden mortar for pounding brick tea
Descriptions
Inventory Description Mortar, carved wood, round base, cylindrical body, grooved, chipped rim
Classification
  • Mortar
Department Ethnographic
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
Asia / Mongolia
Materials Wood, Pigment?
Dimensions Overall: 25.5 x 16 x 16.5 cm (10 1/16 x 6 5/16 x 6 1/2 in.)
Quantity 1
Label on object 33-76-60/343
Provenance
Collector Owen Lattimore (1929-1933)

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