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Lacquered stem-cup from Taho-ri

Artwork · Anonymous · 1st century BCE · cup

A black lacquered square stem-cup from Tomb no. 1 at Taho-ri, which also held round stem-cups filled with persimmons and the lacquered handle of a writing brush — evidence of local lacquer production in the first century BCE beside Chinese imports. 1 Portal 2000, pp. 39–40, fig. 20. ↩ Literatur Portal 2000: Jane Portal, Korea: Art and Archaeology, London: British Museum Press 2000.