Compare the similarly decorated painted lacquer wine cup of this form, referred to in Chinese as a ‘ear cup’ (er bei 耳杯), unearthed in 1965 from tomb no. 1 in a Warring States cemetery at Shazhong, Jiangling, Hubei province, illustrated in the excavation report Jiangling Wangshan Shazhong Chu mu (Chu Tombs at Wangshan and Shazhong, Jiangling), Beijing, 1996, pl.106, no. 3. The same wine cup was previously illustrated in the catalogue of the exhibition organized by the Art Gallery of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hubei chutu Zhanguo Qin Han qiqi (Lacquerware from the Warring States to the Han Periods Excavated in Hubei Province), Hong Kong, 1994, no. 7; together with another similar painted lacquer wine cup, no. 55B, recorded as unearthed in 1978 from tomb no. 47 in a Qin State cemetery at Shuihudi, Yunmeng.

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