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Wine Beaker (Gu)

c. 1200 BCE

China, Shang dynasty

(c. 1600–c. 1046 BCE), Anyang phase (c. 1250–1046 BCE)
bronze
Diameter: 14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.); Overall: 26.9 cm (10 9/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1960.43
Location: 241A Arts of Ancient China
  • ?–1960
    (William H. Wolff [1906–1991], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1960–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Lee, Sherman E. “Year in Review| 1960.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 47, no. 10 (December 1960): 223–254. Mentioned: p. 251, no. 33; Reproduced: p. 228, no. 33 www.jstor.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “Four Ritual Vases,” March 27, 1962, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Ho, Wai-Kam. “Shang and Chou Bronzes.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 51, no. 7 (September 1964): 175–187. Mentioned and Reprodued: p. 179, fig. 4 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 244 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 244 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 324 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 5 archive.org
  • Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).
  • {{cite web|title=Wine Beaker (Gu)|url=false|author=|year=c. 1200 BCE|access-date=20 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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