taotie

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Mandarin 饕餮 (tāotiè).

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Noun

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taotie (plural taoties or taotie)

  1. A motif depicting a gluttonous ogre, commonly found on Chinese ritual bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou Dynasty.
    • [1964, Sherman E. Lee, “Chinese Art of the Shang and Chou Dynasties”, in A History of Far Eastern Art[1], New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49, column 1:
      The pot in figure 49 is very high-fired stoneware with a gray body burnt brown on the exterior where exposed to the flame. It has large t’ao t’ieh masks on the handles and a shape which resembles that of the bronze hsien.]

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