Covered Ritual Food Cooking Vessel (Gui) with Four Columnar Legs and Four Handles

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1944.57.8.A-B
Title: Covered Ritual Food Cooking Vessel (Gui) with Four Columnar Legs and Four Handles
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Chen Chen Fu Yi gui
Classification: Vessels
Work Type: vessel
Date: late 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/204107

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Cast bronze; with integrally cast inscriptions on vessel floor and interior of cover
Dimensions: H. with cover 26.2 cm x W. max. 26.5 cm x Diam. mouth 18.8 cm (10 5/16 x 10 7/16 x 7 3/8 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: 1944.57.8.A-B
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Chen Mengjia, Yin Zhou qingtongqi fenlei tulu (A corpus of Chinese bronzes in American Collections), Kyuko Shoin (Tokyo, Japan, 1977), A 230
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. 469, fig. 61.4

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