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The production of flat sheets of glass had yet to be accomplished in China, so large mirror plates were imported for local artisans, who combined traditional Chinese ink painting with learned Western techniques to create new, highly desirable works of art.
Her brief life was spent at the intersection of the Dugu, Yuwen, Yang, and Li clans—the four families that effectively steered the course of Chinese history toward the Tang dynasty (618-907).
The owner was a pearl on the palms of her distinguished parents, and when her life was cut short, she was buried with funerary goods of a Princess.