Dimensions:Height: 52cm; side length at belly: 23cm

Origin: Unearthed from Han Tomb No.1 at Mawangdui, Changsha in 1972

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. It has a swelled belly and ring-shaped foot. Its raised square cover has four S-shaped decorative brown lugs. The outer surface of the whole piece is coated with black lacquer while its inner surface with vermillion lacquer. The cover is painted with 米-shaped patterns formed by vermillion cloud designs. The neck is painted with vermillion bird-head-shaped patterns, and beneath it are cloud designs in red and grayish green colors. Its shoulder has lozenge designs and its belly has two bands of vermillion and grayish green floating cloud designs. Its foot is painted with vermillion phoenix designs. On the bottom of this utensil are written two vermillion Chinese Characters '四斗' (four dou). Most amazing is that both this lacquer fang and the lacquer zhong had sediment of residue wine or congee when they were unearthed.