BOTTLE WITH GARLIC HEAD RIM

Description The dou - a bottle, usually made of bronze, with a long neck and an expanded belly, used to hold cereal wine – rests on a high truncated cone-shaped foot. It presents a ''garlic head'' shape at the top of the neck, just below a short straight edge. The relief was obtained by increasing the thickness of the bottle wall and keeping the internal diameter constant. Bottles of this type are often found in Qin dynasty tombs in Hubei and early Han dynasty tombs in Hubei and Henan. The presence of the small, straight edge in this specimen appears to be a feature of the early Han dynasty.