Ritual Wine Bucket (you)
CultureChinese
Datelate 11th century B.C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 14 1/4 inches (36.2 cm)
Credit LineBequest of John S. Thacher
Object numberF85-14/10 A,B
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionOval body with swing handle; three bands of decoration in low relief on lid, neck, and foot rim; designs of k'uei (dragons) and t'ao-t'ieh masks. Inscriptions in archaic bronze scripts: "Chia tso Fu Hsin tsun-i X ya" (Chia had this honored sacrificial vessel made for Father Hsin).Gallery LabelYou vessels are defined by their swing handle, which was cast onto the vessel using separate molds cleverly positioned so as to ensure that the handle was movable.
On this vessel the handle terminates in deer-like animal masks. The finely cast bands of decoration on the neck include abstract masks, barely identifiable by a pair of eyes on either side of a central ridge, quills above each eye, and a claw below.
John S. Thacher;
Bequeathed by John S. Thacher to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1985.
Nelson-Atkins Calendar of Events, June, 1986, pp. 2-3, ill (repro.).
Archives of Asian Art, vol. XL (New York: Asia Society, 1987), 84, fig. 17 (repro.).
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Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 C.E.)
34-148/2 A,B
