1950.128.A-B: 'Gong' Covered Ritual Wine Vessel with Tiger and Owl Decor
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1950.128.A-B
- Title
- 'Gong' Covered Ritual Wine Vessel with Tiger and Owl Decor
- Other Titles
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Original Language Title: 觥
Alternate Title: 'guang' - Classification
- Vessels
- Work Type
- vessel
- Date
- 20th century
- Places
- Creation Place: East Asia, China
- Culture
- Chinese
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/203595
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Cast bronze; with inscription on vessel floor
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Arthur Sachs
- Accession Year
- 1950
- Object Number
- 1950.128.A-B
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Rong Geng [Jung Keng], Shang Zhou Yiqi Tongkao (The Bronzes of Shang and Chou), Harvard-Yenching Institute (Beijing, 1941), vol. 2, p.351
- Yumiko Suefusa, "In Shū seidō iki no bi—jikō no kikei to sōshoku" ["Yin and Chou Bronzes with Special Reference to Ssü-kuang Type Receptacles"], Kobijutsu, No. 55, pp. 29-61, March 1978, no.3
Exhibition History
Verification Level
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