- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1943.52.114
- Title
- 'You' Covered Ritual Wine Vessel with Decorative Band of Dragons
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Qing you
- 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/203991
- Physical Descriptions
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- Medium
- Black-surfaced cast bronze; with integrally cast dedicatory inscriptions by Qing inscribed on the vessel floor and interior of lid
- Dimensions
- H. (with handle) 30.3 x W. 23.2 x D. 16.1 cm (11 15/16 x 9 1/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: matching dedicatory inscriptions integrally cast on both the vessel floor and lid interior: Qing zuo [?] kao bao zun yi (Qing had this treasured sacrificial vessel made for his late father)
- Acquisition and Rights
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- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.52.114
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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- Publication History
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Chen Mengjia, Yin Zhou qingtongqi fenlei tulu (A corpus of Chinese bronzes in American Collections), Kyuko Shoin (Tokyo, Japan, 1977), A 567
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. 578, fig. 87.7
- Exhibition History
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S427: Ancient Chinese Bronzes and Jades, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/20/1985 - 04/30/2008
32Q: 1600 Early China II, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/17/2018 - 02/04/2019
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