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Chinese earthenware mercury flask.

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Chinese earthenware mercury flask.
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Chinese earthenware mercury flask. 633 grams, 8" x 4-1/2". Tall vessel with narrow, flat bottom and wide-shouldered top punctuated with a tiny hole, plain gray all over with little bits of whitish encrustation, fully intact (rare thus), used for carrying and pouring mercury or quicksilver. From an Unidentified Chinese wreck sunk in the 1450s off Indonesia