taotien.

1915 R. 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.

1933 Illustr. London News 9 Dec. (Suppl.) p. i/1 This bell has a t'ao-t'ieh design on the upper part.

1958 W. 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.

1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art I. iii. 162 Karlgren analyses the t‘ao-t‘ieh motive into six different types.

1965 New 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.

1973 Genius 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.

1978 New 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.

1980 Catal. 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.