Molded Appliqué Ornament ca. 2nd–5th century West China This appliqué of a floret and streamers issuing from an ornamental disk comes from the distinctive unglazed earthenware vessels found at the village of Yotkan, near the present-day oasis town of Khotan, in what is now China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Yotkan is the site of the ancient capital of the kingdom of Khotan, a major Buddhist center in its time and an important relay station on the southern branch of the overland Silk Molded Appliqué Ornament. West China. ca. 2nd–5th century. Khotanese earthenware. Sculpture

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