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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1944.57.3.A-B
Title
Incense Burner in the Form of an Archaic Bronze “Gong” Wine Vessel with Animal, Dragon, and “Taotie” Décor
Other Titles
Original Language Title: 觥
Alternate Title: 'guang'
Classification
Vessels
Work Type
vessel
Date
18th-early 19th century
Places
Creation Place: East Asia, China
Period
Qing dynasty, 1644-1911
Culture
Chinese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/94538

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Cast bronze; with inscriptions on the vessel floor and interior of cover
Dimensions
H. (to top of horns) 21.1 x W. (max.) 22.2 cm (8 5/16 x 8 3/4 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
1944.57.3.A-B
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Sueji Umehara, Shina-Kodo Seikwa (Selected Relics of Ancient Chinese Bronzes from Collections in Europe and America), Yamanaka & Co. (Osaka, Japan, 1933), part 1, vol. 2, no. 144
  • 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. 51, no. 32
  • Rong Geng [Jung Keng], Shang Zhou Yiqi Tongkao (The Bronzes of Shang and Chou), Harvard-Yenching Institute (Beijing, 1941), vol. 1, p. 428; vol.2, p. 354, no. 680
  • Yumiko Suefusa, "In Shū seidō iki no bi—jikō no kikei to sōshoku" ["Yin and Chou Bronzes with Special Reference to Ssü-kuang Type Receptacles"], Kobijutsu, No. 55, pp. 29-61, March 1978, no. 25

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