taotie
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Etymology
Borrowed from Mandarin 饕餮 (tāotiè).
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Noun
taotie (plural taoties or taotie)
- A motif depicting a gluttonous ogre, commonly found on Chinese ritual bronze vessels from the Shang and Zhou Dynasty.
- , 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.]