toun.
/daʊ//taʊ/ Chinese History.
A hemispherical pedestalled bowl with a lid of similar shape, used as a container for food.
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custard cup1670
mustard-bowl1674
rice bowl1828
tou1899
1899 S. W. Bushell Oriental Ceramic Art (new ed.) xvii. 491 The twelve bowls (pien) on the right being made of closely woven slips of bamboo, lacquered yellow, the twelve (tou) on the left of carved wood, gilded.
1909 B. Laufer Chinese Pottery Han Dynasty iv. 122 The ears are not essential to the type of the tou, as there are also bronze tou which lack them.
1973 Genius of China 52/2 Red Pottery tazza tou, with undulating ornament painted in black.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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