Jug, ancient China?

What do you think about the dating of this jug? What is depicted? What are the patterns and ornaments?

 

It doesn't look Chinese to me. Maybe Middle Eastern?

 

Thank you, maybe so. But the faces seem to have "Mongoloid" features, plus the lotus position. What does all this mean? What are these clothes?

I don't even know. It seems like something very familiar. But I can't figure out what it is?

 

The faces are very sketchy, and the lotus position is more Hindu, India etc.

Maybe one of the others has an idea.

 

I'd have figured India or somewhere else in the vicinity. The metalwork is crude, but not old/crude. IIRC they made pieces in Iran for export that weren't too far off of this one.

 

According to the seller's legend, the item was found somewhere in the south of Central Asia during the USSR)).But where and how it was found, I don't know)).I bought the item for 5 dollars)).

 

They probably bought it close to where it was made. If it's copper, you got it for metal weight, so a decent price.

 

Hmm, well, the item doesn't look like it was made in the 20th century)).

It seems like an older thing. But how much older is hard to say. It's heavy, like bronze or something.

 

That could be the region of origin, as evelyb suggested.
That fits in with the 'sort of' Persian shape and engraving. Most of Central Asia was once part of greater Bactria/Persia.