Jue wine vessel
Unknown Chinese artist(s) · 12th-11th century BCE
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Ancient · № 293
Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks, dragons, and real animals
Asian · late Shang dynasty, ca. 1100-1050 BCE
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Ritual wine ewer (gong) with masks, dragons, and real animals
Chinese late Shang dynasty ritual bronze wine vessel (gong); the 3D record combines two scanned halves.
- Maker
- Asian
- Date
- late Shang dynasty, ca. 1100-1050 BCE
- Place
- Asia
- Material
- Bronze
- Current collection
- Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
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Shang casters covered this bronze wine ewer with masks, dragons, and animal forms. Low-angle light makes the distinctions between raised motifs and the underlying vessel easier to see.
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- Maker
- Asian
- Date
- late Shang dynasty, ca. 1100-1050 BCE
- Place
- Asia
- Material
- Bronze
- Current collection
- Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art
- Rights
- CC0 1.0
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