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Spouted drug jar with sphinxes

Deruta 16th Century
Credit: Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)
1507
Tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)
22.4 x 17.8 x 22.9 cm
2015.19.3988
Image © National Gallery of Art, 2020

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