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Wine Vessel (Fu Wu Zun)

Wine Vessel (Fu Wu Zun)

c. 1000–900 BCE
(c. 1046–771 BCE)
Diameter: 23.1 cm (9 1/8 in.); Overall: 25.2 cm (9 15/16 in.)

Did You Know?

This vessel is decorated with dragons and taotie, a stylized monster face motif frequently found on ancient Chinese ritual bronzes.
  • ?–1938
    (Tonying and Co., Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1938–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) Through the Tʻang Dynasty (A.D. 618-906); an Exhibition Lent by American Collectors and Museums and Shown in Gallery D6 from October 19 through November 27, 1938. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938 Mentioned: no. 98, p. 9 libmma.contentdm.oclc.org
    Hollis, Howard. "A Chinese Sacrificial Wine Vessel." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 25, no. 10 (December 1938): 176–177. Reproduced: front cover; Mentioned: p. 176 www.jstor.org
    “Accessions.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 7 (July 1939): 124–126. Reproduced: p. 127
    Francis, Henry. "Loans to Important Exhibitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 7 (July 1939): 123. Mentioned: p. 123; Reproduced: p. 127 www.jstor.org
    Loehr, Max. Ritual Vessels of Bronze Age China. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, CT, 1968. cat. no. 47, p. 110.
    Chen, Mengjia 陳夢家 and Matsumaru Michio 松丸道雄改1977. In Shū seidōki bunrui zuroku [殷周青銅器分類図錄 = A Corpus of Chinese Bronzes in American Collections]. Tōkyō: Kyuko Shoin 汲古書院, 1977. Reproduced: p. 697.
    Little, Stephen. “Chinese Calligraphy.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 9 (November 1987): 372–403. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 372–373 www.jstor.org
  • Ancient Chinese Bronzes. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY (October 10-December 15, 1968).
    Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766-1122 B.C.) through the Tʻang dynasty (A.D. 618-906). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 19-November 27, 1938).
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