1944.57.25.A-B: Covered Wine Vessel (You) with Animal-Head Bail Handle and Decoration of Long-Tailed Birds

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1944.57.25.A-B

Title

Covered Wine Vessel (You) with Animal-Head Bail Handle and Decoration of Long-Tailed Birds

Classification

Vessels

Work Type

vessel

Date

mid Western Zhou period, early 10th-early 9th 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/204066

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Cast bronze; with integrally cast inscriptions on vessel floor and interior of cover

Dimensions

H. 23.18 x W. 22.23 cm (9 1/8 x 8 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: The inscription reads: "Zuo lü yi" ("[I] made [this] travelling vessel")

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

1944.57.25.A-B

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. 44, no. 12
• Chen Mengjia, Yin Zhou qingtongqi fenlei tulu (A corpus of Chinese bronzes in American Collections), Kyuko Shoin (Tokyo, Japan, 1977), A 620

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