National Museum of Asian Art
Spouted cup with mask and incised linked curls
475-221 BCE
Cup, peach shaped, with low, spreading foot; translucent, greenish white with light and dark brown markings; large areas of opaque cream white decomposition; much earth incrustation. Incised, wide band of interlocked double spiral pattern, one t’ao-t’ieh [taotie] 饕餮 mask. (Rim and foot rim broken, surface damage.)
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