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Wine Cups (Jue)

Wine Cups (Jue)

c. 1200 BCE
(c. 1600–c. 1046 BCE), Anyang phase (c. 1250–1046 BCE)
bronze
Overall: 20.3 x 19.7 cm (8 x 7 3/4 in.)
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund and Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1960.78
Location: 241A Arts of Ancient China

Description

Wine and food played a major role in ritual offerings to the ancestral spirits and the Supreme Ancestor (Shangdi) performed by the Shang rulers in the state cult of ancestor worship. A variety of wine vessels—each type given a specific name—was cast to bear witness to the power and artistic vitality of this remote civilization.

This example of a jue wine cup is for libations. Other major types of wine vessels include jia (wine warming vessel), fangyou (square wine container), and gu (beaker with a trumpeted mouth for pouring).
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    1994 Cleveland Museum of Art, Asian Autumn: "New Objects/New Insights: Cleveland's Recent Chinese Acquisitions," cat., Bull., vol. 81, no. 8 (Oct. 1994) cat. no. 7, p. 346
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    1990 Cleveland Museum of Art, Powerful Form and Potent Symbol: The Dragon in Asia, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, July 24-December 30, 1990, no. 2
    1988 Cleveland Museum of Art, Treasures for the Yellow Springs, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, February 2-June 6, 1988 (no cat.)
    Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).
    1960 Cleveland Museum of Art, Year in Review for 1960, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961, no. 26
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