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Portrait Head Jar is yellow crockery with a little bit of lime green color. The head of the jar is like an inverted egg with two large proportionally ears. Near the ears are the sideburns, which are prominent. On the forehead there is a slightly downward curve. The eyes are shaped like seeds. Looking down there is a cone shaped nose and closed lips representing with upward curves. The neck of the head is very short. The upper part of the head is cut horizontally, forming an oblique line.

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The Ceremonial Cup is dark brown with a shape of human head, and it is made of wood. There are two main parts of the cup-the head and the neck. The head of the cup is similar to an inverted triangle, while the length of the neck is as long as that of the head. The hair is expressed with crisscrossing lines that forming many small grids, and there is a small triangle on the middle of the forehead. Looking down, there is a repetitive use of seed shape pattern because the eyes and the mouth of the head are all depicted with this kind of pattern. It is worth noting that there are five straight lines stretching from the eye down to the bottom of the face, and there are four identical straight lines on the neck. Below the eyes there is a conical nose that has a closer distance with the eyes and the mouth comparing with that of human. There are two special patterns on both side between the ears and the eyes, and each one consists of four dots. The ears are much smaller than the
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Firstly, it is made of wood, so it is harder to make it comparing with Portrait Head Jar. Portrait Head Jar is made of ceramic, and it is deformed before drying. However, the wood products cannot be deformed. Secondly, The Ceremonial Cup is smaller than Portrait Head Jar, but its pattern is still more refined than that of the jar, which means that The Ceremonial Cup was made by artisans who have proficient

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