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A RARE EARLY BLACK AND RED LACQUER AND WOOD CORE See Masterpieces of Chinese and Japanese Art, Freer Gallery of Art
EAR CUP Handbook, Washington D.C., 1978, p. 58 for another ear cup with
Zhou/Han dynasty, 5th-3rd Century BCE fantastic geometric designs. The cup is said to have come from a
The deep oval cup lacqured red to the interior and a dark black-brown tomb in Changsha, Hunan province and is typical of lacquer finds from
lacquer to the lower part of the exterior and the underside of the ‘ear’ the domain of the Warring States of Ch’u. Our example with its fairly
handles, a wide reserve-decorated geometric red-ground band on a rigid design appears to reflect the elaborate style of inlaid bronzes of
vertical wall at the rim which is also found on the flat rising top of the the late Eastern Zhou dynasty.
‘ears’, the sides of the ‘ears’ decorated on a black-brown ground with
circlet wavy scrolls in red lacquer. See also another ear cup balanced atop a stem illustrated in The
7in (17.8cm) across, cloth wrap, wood box Freer Gallery of Art, I China, Tokyo, 1981, p. 177, pl. 112. Another is
illustrated by James C.Y. Watt and Barbara Brennan Ford, East Asian
$4,000 - 6,000 Lacquer, The Florence and Herbert Irvibg Collection, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 1991, p. 17, no. 3.
周/漢 公元前五至三世紀 漆耳杯

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