Earthenware fang (rectangular jar) painted with phoenix design
Medium:Pottery
Date:Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)
Dimensions:Overall height: 35.8cm; diameter of mouth: 10.7cm, diameter of bottom: 14.7cm
Origin: Excavated from Han Tomb No.1 at Mawangdui, Changsha City, Hunan Province in 1972
This object, with a square mouth and smooth rim, a collar-shaped band on the outer surface of the rim, is a jar for containing wine. It has a swelled belly and square-shaped foot and its raised square cover has four S-shaped decorative brown lugs.