Raft Cup

1300s–1400s Overall: 16 cm (6 5/16 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.7

The figure watching the stars is believed to be the messenger Zhang Qian (died 114 BCE). Legend says he lost his way in the Milky Way, where he met the Weaving Maid who gave him a stone from her loom. Zhang, in fact, holds a slab inscribed loom stone. The vessel is dated, insc...

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