Ritual Wine Vessel
Original Language TitleHu
CultureChinese
Date4th-3rd century B.C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 7 3/8 × 2 13/16 × 3 7/16 inches (18.73 × 7.14 × 8.73 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number47-20
On View
On viewGallery Location
- 232
Collections
Exhibition HistoryPrinceton Bicentennial Exhibition, March 1947.
By the fourth century b.c.e., new types of bronze decoration had emerged, including geometric patterns based on textile designs such as the one on the shoulder of this vessel. The decoration on the foot imitates braiding.
F. P. Musso;
Purchased from F. P. Musso by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.
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), 15 (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), 277 (repro.).
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