Red and dark brown lacquer on a wooden coreexpand_more
The Ruth Ann Dayton Chinese Room Endowment Fundexpand_more 2006.43.2.1
Shallow, elliptical cups of elongated form with paired rim handles (called "ears") were popular during the Eastern Chou (770-221 b.c.) and Han dynasties (206 b.c.-220 a.d.). Lacquer "ear cups" of this distinctive form with wing-shaped handles were produced only during the late Eastern Chou period in the state of Chu. The rims are decorated inside and out with a wide border of wing-and-scroll motifs in a repeating pattern in red on a dark brown ground. The top of the flared wing handles are decorated with detached scroll motifs with a running deer on one handle and the other handle a long-tailed bird. Similar vessels have been excavated from a tomb at Chiang-ling in Hubeh province and they are believed to have been used for drinking wine.
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