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  • Painted pottery pot with a handle

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    The painted pottery pot was unearthed from the eastern case of No.1 Han tomb at Mawangdui.

  • Bag of pitch pipes

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    The bag was used to contain the pitch pipes for yu.

  • Painted wooden figurine

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    101 painted wooden standing figurines were excavated from Han tomb No.1 at Mawangdui.

  • Wooden male figurine with a hat

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    Two identical wooden figurines with hat were unearthed from Han tomb 1 at Mawangdui.

  • Wood plate

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    The wood plate recorded the amount of funerary currency in the tomb.

  • Mirror cover

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    These two mirror covers were stored in the lacquer box with five small boxes and the lacquer box with nine small boxes respectively.

  • Winged cup with cloud design and inscription

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    More than 100 pieces of lacquer winged cups were unearthed from Tomb 1 and Tomb 3.

  • Lacquer food container

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    It is a food container

  • Two-tiered lacquer toiletry case with nine small boxes

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

  • Lacquer cups and box with cloud design

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    It contains seven flanged lacquer cups.

  • Lacquer box with cloud design

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    This box consists of a cover and a body.

  • Lacquer ladle with cloud design

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    This ladle is made of wood.

  • Lacquer ladle with dragon design

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    This ladle is made of bamboo.

  • Coffin with painted designs on vermilion lacquer coating

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    The body of the coffin is made of wood.

  • Coffin with brocade decorations

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    This is the innermost coffin used to contain the body of Xin Zhui.

  • Coffin with painted designs on black lacquer coating

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    The body of the coffin is made of wood.

  • Lacquer tripod with cloud design

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    This lacquer tripod is ellipsoid shaped, with a spherical cover.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Lacquered liubo chess set

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Silk shoes

    Date : Western Han (206 BCE-9 CE)

    This is a pair of silk shoes worn by the lady Dai.