Dimensions: Height: 10 cm; diameter at mouth: 9.1 cm; length of the handle: 6 cm; diameter of the handle: 3.1 cm

Origin: Unearthed from Tomb 1 at Mamangdui, Changsha, in 1972

The painted pottery pot with a handle was unearthed from the eastern case of No.1 Han tomb at Mawangdui. The pot is painted with straight mouth, flat brim, short neck, three short legs and a flat and round belly in colors, but without any lid. On its shoulder is a spout in the shape of an animal head and on its belly a tube-like handle. 

The pot is hand-made and of grey roughcast. It was applied with a layer of white chalk, on which is painted red and black thick lines. 

The pot of simple design is an actual vessel used in daily life for warming wine. The wine in the pot is slowly simmered from the fire underneath it.