1944.57.13: Ritual Food Vessel (Li Ding) with 'Taotie' Decor and Two Loop Handles in the Form of Twisted Rope

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1944.57.13

Title

Ritual Food Vessel (Li Ding) with 'Taotie' Decor and Two Loop Handles in the Form of Twisted Rope

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

early Western Zhou period, mid 11th-early 10th century BCE

Places

Creation Place: East Asia, China

Period

Zhou dynasty, Western Zhou period, c. 1050-771 BCE

Culture

Chinese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/203789

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Cast bronze; with integrally cast four-character inscription reading "Zuo Fu Xin _?_" on the interior of the lip

Dimensions

H. 19.1 cm (7 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Private Collection (by 1944), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1944.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Anonymous gift

Accession Year

1944

Object Number

1944.57.13

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Bronzes and Buddhist Art Dating from Shang Dynasty 1766 B.C. to Yuan Dynasty A.D. 1367, auct. cat., Yamanaka & Co. (New York, NY, October 1938), p. 43, no. 2
• Chen Mengjia, Yin Zhou qingtongqi fenlei tulu (A corpus of Chinese bronzes in American Collections), Kyuko Shoin (Tokyo, Japan, 1977), A 122
• Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections (Volume IIB), Arthur M. Sackler Foundation and Arthur M. Sackler Museum (Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, Mass., 1990), p. 315, fig. 25.3

Exhibition History

• Ancient Chinese Metal Technology, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge, 04/29/1977 - 10/30/1977

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