6176486 Winged Cup with Geometric Designs, 3rd century B.C. (brown lacquer painted with red lacquer) by Chinese School, Eastern Zhou Dynasty (770-221 BC); height: 4.8 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: Eastern Zhou dynasty, Warring States period (475??21 B.C.) The state of Chu, noted for lacquer, was the major cultural force in south central China. The playful, thin lines on this winged cup are a later stylized version of the traditional cloud-dragon motif. The two large winglike appendages are described as "ears", and cups of this type are generally termed "ear-cups," or erbei.); Chinese, out of copyright.