Collection
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Lacquer food container
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
It is a food container
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Two-tiered lacquer toiletry case with nine small boxes
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
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Lacquer cups and box with cloud design
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
It contains seven flanged lacquer cups.
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Lacquer box with cloud design
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
This box consists of a cover and a body.
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Lacquer ladle with cloud design
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
This ladle is made of wood.
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Lacquer ladle with dragon design
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
This ladle is made of bamboo.
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Coffin with painted designs on vermilion lacquer coating
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
The body of the coffin is made of wood.
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Coffin with brocade decorations
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
This is the innermost coffin used to contain the body of Xin Zhui.
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Coffin with painted designs on black lacquer coating
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
The body of the coffin is made of wood.
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Lacquer tripod with cloud design
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
This lacquer tripod is ellipsoid shaped, with a spherical cover.
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Lacquer fang with cloud design
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
This lacquer fang with cloud design has a square mouth and smooth rim, with a collar-shaped band on the outer surface of the rim.
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Lacquer zhong with cloud design
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
This lacquer zhong has a huge belly, coated with vermillion lacquer on the outside and black lacquer on the inside.
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Lacquer tray with cloud design
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
Two lacquer trays of similar shape and design were unearthed from Han Tomb No.1 at Mawangdui.
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Lacquered liubo chess set
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
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Lacquer screen with painted cloud and dragon patterns
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
The lacquer screen unearthed from Tomb No.1 is of hewn wooden basis, with two wooden stands holding it.
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Cloud-riding embroidery on brown qi with double birds and lozenge design
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
A varied cloud pattern is densely embroidered on this brown qi with light green, light reddish brown and olive green threads.
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Silk shoes
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
This is a pair of silk shoes worn by the lady Dai.
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Crimson silk socks
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
This pair of socks is made of thin silk in double layers.
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Thin silk skirt
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
This skirt is sewn out of four pieces of thin crimson silk with each piece broader at the bottom than the top.
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Yellowish brown pillow
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
This is the only herb pillow unearthed from Mawangdui Tombs, which contains thoroughwort inside.
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Juan silk with lozenge design and down feathers
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
The silk with feathers was used to decorate the outside surface of the innermost coffin.
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Yellow qi with paired birds and lozenge pattern
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
The design is made up of consecutive lozenge designs formed by thin thread, with patterns of flowers and plants and birds filled in them.
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Brocade with lozenge pattern
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
Brocade with lozenge pattern is a four-warp jacquard fabric made with three warps to form piled circles
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Gauze with flame pattern in gold and silver
Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
Gauze is light, thin and transparent tabby silk fabric with apparent square pores.