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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1944.57.24.A-B
Title
Covered Ritual Wine Vessel (You) with Animal-Head Bail Handle and Kui-Dragon Decor
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Xiong Ding you
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
late Shang or early Western Zhou period, 11th century BCE
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Shang dynasty (c. 1600-c. 1050 BCE) to Western Zhou period (c. 1050-771 BCE)
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/204212

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cast bronze; with integrally cast inscriptions on vessel floor and interior of cover
Dimensions
without handle: H. 22.9 cm (9 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
1944.57.24.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 601
  • 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. 560, fig. 83.1

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