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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1944.57.17
Title
Ritual Food Vessel (Gui) with Four Handles and 'Taotie' Decor
Other Titles
Alternate Title: kuei
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204102

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cast bronze
Dimensions
10.48 x 25.08 x 16.51 cm (4 1/8 x 9 7/8 x 6 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
1944.57.17
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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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. 46, no. 22
  • Chen Mengjia, Yin Zhou qingtongqi fenlei tulu (A corpus of Chinese bronzes in American Collections), Kyuko Shoin (Tokyo, Japan, 1977), A 227

Verification Level

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