Pao-chi

From Mandarin 寶雞／宝鸡 (Bǎojī), Wade–Giles romanization: Pao³-chi¹.[1]

Pao-chi

1. Alternative form of Baoji
   • 1950, Lubor Hájek, Chinese Art‎, Czechoslovakia: Spring Books, →OCLC, page 41:

     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.

   • 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:

     As 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).

   • 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 11:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Pao-chi.

• Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Paoki or Pao-chi”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World‎, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 1425, column 1
• “Pao-chi”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Pao-chi”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Pao-chi” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.