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Spouted cup with mask and incised linked curls
From the collection of National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler). Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
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.)
National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler)’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineSpouted cup with mask and incised linked curls. 475-221 BCE. National Museum of Asian Art (Freer/Sackler), Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment. CC0.
