单选题 According to the passage, the "earlier vases" mentioned in the second paragraph constitute which of the following?

• (A) The product of mixed media art, involving hybrid forms
• (B) A case of primarily utilitarian art being put to decorative purposes
• (C) Utilitarian art whose makers were solely concerned with functionality
• (D) Fine art, whose primary purpose is to convey aesthetic meaning
• (E) Prehistoric art, about which art historians know little