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2. Three remarkable objects

The MEG’s Asian collection numbers nearly 15,000 objects, with a special focus on religious iconography, weapons, India, Tibet, China and Japan. Three objects are particularly impressive:

• a bowl from Palestine which was the very first object to enter the old Archaeology Museum;
• a ritual Chinese bowl with a double bottom, one with an open work snake pattern, a technical exploit of which there is only one other known example, discovered in China in 1980;
• a 5000-year-old urn, the oldest scientifically dated piece in the MEG.

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