WARRING STATES PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH–3RD CENTURY BC

A very similar lacquered wood ear cup (er bei) was discovered in 1965 in tomb no. 1 in the Warring States cemetery at Wangshan, Jiangling, Hubei province, and is illustrated in Hubei chutu Zhanguo Qin Han qiqi (Lacquerware from the Warring States to the Han Periods Excavated in Hubei Province), Hong Kong, 1994, no. 3. The same ear cup is illustrated again in the excavation report, Jiangling Wangshan Shazhong Chu mu (Chu Tombs at Wangshan and Shazhong, Jiangling), Beijing, 1996, col. pl. 3, no. 1, together with another very similar example from tomb no. 2 at Wangshan, illustrated in pl. 76, no. 3.