Barrel
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This large barrel-shaped container features four whimsical figures, three of which represent Asian people—a musician, a dancer, and a merchant—as imagined by Westerners. A fourth figure, apparently European, is characterized as a mariner or an explorer. In an almost comical invocation of the imperial gaze, he peers through a telescope and brandishes a large compass.
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