File:MetMuseum - Hunping - P1090403.jpg

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A Chinese funerary urn (hunping) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Item no. 1992.165.21. According to the label, such urns were characteristic of the areas south of the Yangtze (south Jiangsu / northern Zhejiang) ca. 250-300 AD, during the Jin Dynasty. The row of seating Buddhas is one of the earliest Buddhist images in China.

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current03:03, 14 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 03:03, 14 January 20171,536 × 2,048 (1.37 MB)127.0.0.1 (talk)A Chinese funerary urn (<i>hunping</i>) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Item no. 1992.165.21. According to the label, such urns were characteristic of the areas south of the Yangtze (south Jiangsu / northern Zhejiang) ca. 250-300 AD, during the Jin Dynasty. The row of seating Buddhas is one of the earliest Buddhist images in China.
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