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‖ t'ao t'ieh|taʊ tjə|
Also taotie, tao-tieh.
[Chinese tāotiè.]
The name of a mythical monster, or a mask-design showing its face, found esp. on metalware of the Chou period (1122–221 b.c.). Freq. attrib.
1915R. L. Hobson Chinese Pottery & Porcelain II. xvii. 290 This is the face of the t'ao t'ieh (the gluttonous ogre) supposed originally to have represented the demon of the storm. 1933Illustr. London News 9 Dec. (Suppl.) p. i/1 This bell has a t'ao-t'ieh design on the upper part. 1958W. Willetts Chinese Art I. iii. 161 T'ao-t'ieh..is a device in which two confronting zoomorphs in profile form the left and right sides of an animal mask seen in full face. Ibid. 162 Karlgren analyses the t'ao-t'ieh motive into six different types. 1965New Statesman 20 Aug. 257/1 Eloquent prose passages like René Grousset's dramatic evocation of the t'ao-t'ieh on the sides of Chou vessels. 1973Genius of China 47/2 It is notable that the convention of the face painted on this bowl shows no relation to the t'ao-t'ieh, an evil-averting monster mask which pervades the later bronze-age art of central China. 1978New Archaeol. Finds in China II. 29 Some broken pieces of the outer coffin remain; they are carved with a tao-tieh (ogre-mask) design in the form of an ox head. 1980Catal. Fine Chinese Ceramics (Sotheby, Hong Kong) 80 A further frieze of upright acanthus leaves around the neck.., the shoulders set with moulded taotie (t'ao t'ieh) mask and ring handles. |