This is a Tang Dynasty cultural relic, unearthed in 1970 in Hejia village, southern suburb of Xi 'an, Shaanxi Province. It is 6.4 cm high and 7.2 cm diameter. It is now collected in Shaanxi History Museum.

A tiny mouth, arc belly inward, trumpet ring foot, foot along the ring beads, ring handle. The stalk is flat, and decorated with two bearded heads with a high nose and deep eyes. The body of the cup is octagonal and cast into shape. Each side of the cup body is delimited by a chisel line, and each of the eight sides of the cup body is decorated with a musician holding a musical instrument. They are all dressed in short clothes and wide pants, smiling, with different expressions, and their clothes and hair style are not common, with Sogdian style.

The instruments held in the hands of the musicians were harp, pipa, pan xiao, etc., which belonged to the Xiliang, Qiuci and Goryeo instruments in the Sui and Tang dynasties. On the body of the cup there is a ring handle composed of beads, and on the finger pad there is a side humpback. The handle, bottom, and octagon are decorated with beads, which is also typical of Persian Sassanid gold and silver.

Therefore, both the shape and the decorative style of the gold cup have strong foreign characteristics, which is a witness of the cultural exchange between China and foreign countries in the Tang Dynasty