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Ritual Wine Vessel
Ritual Wine Vessel

Ritual Wine Vessel

Original Language TitleFang-i
Original Language TitleFangyi
CultureChinese
Datelate 11th century B.C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 11 1/8 × 7 1/2 × 6 5/8 inches (28.26 × 19.05 × 16.83 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number51-28 A,B
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 232
Collections
Gallery Label
The roof-like lid typical of this type suggests that it may in origin have been inspired by architecture. The decoration retains the motifs—masks, dragons and birds—of the preceding Shang period, but has become considerably more florid, with hooks and curls sprouting all over the place. The spiked flanges that divide the faces and accentuate the corners may have been pure design elements devoid of symbolic meaning.
Provenance

Low-Beer & Co;

Purchased from Low-Beer & Co by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1951.


Published References

Archives of the Chinese Art Society of America, vol. vi (New York: Asia Society, 1952), 69, fig. 19 (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 172 (repro.).

Ross E. Taggart, George L. McKenna, and Marc F. Wilson, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. II, Art of the Orient. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 13 (repro.).

Marc F. Wilson, “Form and Design: Chinese Archaic Bronzes and Jades” Apollo, special issue for the Asian art collection in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Vol. XCVII, no. 133 (March 1973), 50, pl. 7 (repro.).

William Watson, L'art De L'ancienne Chine (Paris: Éditions d'art Lucien Mazenod, 1979), 388, no. 246 (repro.).

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 275 (repro.).

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 291, pl. 26 (repro.).

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