| Object Number | 49-14-3 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Chinese |
| Provenience | Anyang |
| Period | Shang Dynasty |
| Date Made | Shang Dynasty |
| Section | Asian |
| Materials | Clay |
| Iconography | Taotie | Cicada |
| Description | Ring base, globular body, very short neck, outturned rim with two deep encircling grooves on upper surface; two slight lugs at maximum diameter. Black ware. Carved decoration to imitate bronze; two Taotie masks and two cicadas alternating with four whorls; faint X's and triangular piercings on intervening spaces. On most of lower body, a wide band of diamond pattern. |
| Credit Line | Bequest of Julia Morgan through brother Hugh Morgan, 1949 |
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