Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Baoji.
Sometime during the ninth century B.C., in a small Chinese state called San—situated near modern-day Pao-chi in western Shensi Province—an earl commissioned a set of ritual vessels.
1982, Robert L. Thorp, “A Primer on the Bronze Caster's Art”, in Spirit and Ritual: The Morse Collection of Ancient Chinese Art, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 112 more examples
According to the hair-dress it is probably that of a woman. There are some 102 slight traces of polychromy on the white slip. Other heads possessing similar qualities were dug up from early Han tombs in Pao-chi district, Shensi Province.
1950, Lubor Hájek, Chinese Art, Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, →OCLC, page 41As has been established by recent excavations, the Pan-p’o tradition extended at least as far west as Pao-chi on the Wei River in Shensi.”) Among the Pan-p’o material excavated at Pao-chi was found a small squat water jar with a baluster-like head; painted on the surface of this vessel is the outline of a dragon-like creature (Figure 143).
1981, Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, “The Ma-chia-yao Tradition”, in The traditions of Chinese neolithic pottery, number 53, Stockholm: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44
Origin
- Mandarin寶雞 /宝鸡
- EnglishPao-chi
From Mandarin 寶雞 /宝鸡 (Bǎojī), Wade–Giles romanization: Pao³-chi¹.
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