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Digital Archive of Toyo Bunko Rare Books

Ast. ii. 2. 011. Shaped piece of wood; resembling Ast. ii.
1. 010. Flat strip with one long edge straight, the other
slightly arched. For ¼″ from ends wood is cut away entirely
on straight side to depth of ⅛″; remainder of end cut
into tenons one-third of orig. thickness. Traces of white
paint. Length 9¼″, gr. width 1⅜″, thickness ¼″.

Ast. ii. 2. 012. Strip of wood, cut sq. at edges and ends.
Band of blue paint along one edge, on wide face; three
black lines on thickness adjoining blue divide length into
four equal spaces. 8″×1⁄16″×1⁄16″.

Ast. ii. 2. 013. Shaped piece of wood, exactly like Ast.
ii. 1. 09, and of same size. Length over all 8¼″.

Ast. ii. 2. 014. Piece of wood, oblong in section, taper-
ing slightly towards one end, broken at other. Painted
all over red, with wavy black line down each wide face,
and light green spots in hollows. Narrow faces painted
with black cross-lines alternating with light green. 7⅛″×
1⁄16″ (gr. width) ×⅛″.

Ast. ii. 2. 015. Four wooden sticks tied together with
frs. of hemp (?) rope. Natural sticks split in half length-
ways and bark stripped off; one pointed at each end;
two others broken and broken ends laid over each other
in antiquity and bound with string. Average length 2′,
and thickness 3⁄16″.

Ast. ii. 2. 016. Shaped piece of wood, sq. in section,
with projection, ¼″ high and c. ⅛″ long, left at each end on
one side. Immediately within these projections ¼″ hole is
bored through stick, and in one remains wooden peg.
Round tenon of Ast. ii. 2. 017 fits empty hole, and faint
depression on surface of 016 indicates the probable con-
nexion of these two. The addition of a similar piece

belonging to tenon still in other hole and the piece marked
ii. 2. 011 would complete a four-sided frame. Length
10¼″, average thickness ¼″ sq.

Ast. ii. 2. 017. Shaped piece of wood, same as Ast. ii. 1.
09 and ii. 2. 013, except that end which in the other two
has tenon is here cut as a mortice and fits tenon of Ast. ii.
2. 016. Peg also passes transversely through bar ⅛″ from
other end. No paint; cf. preceding object. Length of
whole 9¼″×1⁄16″×⅛″.

Ast. ii. 2. 018–20. Pair of wooden wheels, from model
carriage; like Ast. ii. 1. 012–13, Pl. XCIV. Incomplete;
018 and 019 prob. form about ⅔ of one rim, 018 retaining
three spokes. 020 forms about ⅔ of rim of second wheel
and has ends of spokes remaining in several grooves;
burnt at broken ends. Rims high and narrow as in Ast.
ii. 1. 012–13; painted black all over. Outer diam. c. 9″,
inner diam. 7¼″, thickness ¼″.

Ast. ii. 2. 021. Elliptical lacquered wooden bowl, with
ear handles. Typical Han shape as T. 01, Pl. XLVII,
and Ser. iv. Pl. LII, T. vi. b. ii. 001. Large size. Lacquered
plain black all over, outside over canvas; inside mostly
directly on wood but over canvas for about ¼″ downwards
from rim. One ear has broken off and been clamped on
again in antiquity with piece of bronze sheet and rivets,
but has again broken off. Ast. ii. 2. 023 is another piece
similarly broken off and repaired. Length 8″, depth 2¼″,
gr. width (with handles) 5¼″.

Ast. ii. 2. 022–3. Pair of pottery tazzas; wheel-made.
Grey distempered with black. Wide shallow basin, with
elegant outward and down-curving rim, short pedestal, and
spreading foot. Rough work generally. Basins of both
broken. H. 2¼″, diam. of foot 2¼″, of basin 6″. Pl. XC.

OBJECTS EXCAVATED IN TOMBS OF GROUP iii

Ast. iii. 1. 01–12. One dozen pastry 'straws'; plain
straight bars like modern cheese-straws. Average length
3″, diam. 1⁄16″. Pl. XCII.

Ast. iii. 1. 013–20. Pastry wafers; thin, flat, apparently
roughly triangular when complete. Seem to have been
made of fine strips of pastry coiled flat; inner part in
three spirals, with species of rayed border surrounding
whole. 3⅛″×2″×¼″. Pl. XCII.

Ast. iii. 1. 021. Pastry tartlet, in form of star-shaped
flower, with five short pointed petals rising up round
hollow centre, in which is decayed matter, evidently fruit
(cf. iii. 2. 040–4). Well made. Excellent condition. Diam.
2″. Pl. XCII.

Ast. iii. 1. 022. Pastry tartlet, in form of circular flower
with eight long narrow petals rising from hollow centre
(for fruit) as in Ast. iii. 1. 021; between each pair of petals
a ridge of short erect close-set 'spines'. Both petals
and rows of spines strongly convex. One petal made double
by mistake. Hole through centre. Well made; excellent
condition. For another, see Ast. iii. 2. 039. Diam. 2¼″.
Pl. XCII.

Ast. iii. 1. 023. Pastry tartlet; round, with hollow centre
and raised flat border. Plain. Hole through middle.
Diam. 2″. Pl. XCII.

Ast. iii. 1. 024–5. Couple of pastry tartlets. Circular,
having funnel-shaped centres with hole at bottom; flat
below. Sides turned over and moulded in form of down-
ward-hanging petals (015 and 020), with high thin edges
and deep hollows in middle of, and between, each petal.
Tartlet from top therefore presents appearance of disc
with edges closely serrated or foliated like under-side of
mushroom. Remains of decayed fruit inside. Cf. Ast. iii.
2. 045, 046. Good condition. Diam. 1¼″. Pl. XCII.

Ast. iii. 1. c26–9. Bun; round, well risen; divided into
four by two cuts at right angles and interior sandwiched
with some darker-coloured matter, probably fruit. Top
ornamented with close-punched rows of holes. Diam. 3″.
Pl. XCII.

Ast. iii. 1. 030–41. Pastry 'bow-knot' twists; five
complete and frs. of others. Each made of single rope of
dough, twisted into pair of large loops, the ends inter-