1-233-418 - The Museum of East Asian Art/Heritage Images

Tortoise-shaped flask with teadust glaze, Six Dynasties-early Tang dynasty, China, 6th-7th century. A flat round stoneware flask in the shape of a tortoise; its stylised head forming the opening, its front legs forming a pair of handles; the brownish coloured body covered on the upper half with a brownish green glaze of tea-dust colour.