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Wine Vessel (Zun)

Wine Vessel (Zun)

c. 1000 BCE
(c. 1046–771 BCE)
Overall: 29.5 cm (11 5/8 in.)

Description

Although the Zhou defeated the Shang, the performance of religious rites and the casting of ceremonial bronzes continued. Zhou bronze art, nevertheless, reveals the artistic sentiments of a new era. There was as much confidence in the achievements of the living as observance of ritual duties for the dead. For example, this wine vessel combines artistic imagination with a display of strength and force. Bold images of buffalo heads with protruding horns were cast onto the middle section. Together with the four notched flanges extending downward below the flaring mouth, there is an effect of overflowing energy.
  • ?–1951
    Howard C. Hollis [1899–1985], Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1951–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Milliken, William M. “A Chinese Ceremonial Bronze.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 1 (January 1952): 6–7. Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 6–7 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 799 archive.org
    Sullivan, Michael. Chinese and Japanese Art. New York: Grolier, 1965. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 18, fig. A
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 245 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 245 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 325 archive.org
    Barnard, Noel 巴納, and Guangyu Zhang 張光裕. Zhong Ri Ou Mei Ao Niu suo jian suo tuo suo mo Jin wen hui bian [中日美歐澳紐所見所拓所摹金文彙編 = Rubbings and hand copies of bronze inscriptions in Chinese, Japanese, European, American, and Australasian collections]. Taibei: Yee Wen Pub. Co, 1978. v. 7, no. 1286
    Kathman, Barbara A. A Cleveland Bestiary. Cleveland, OH; Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. Mentioned: p. 45-46, p. 62; Reproduced: p. 46
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. Reproduced: p. 7 archive.org
  • A Cleveland Bestiary. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 15-December 16, 1981).
  • {{cite web|title=Wine Vessel (Zun)|url=false|author=|year=c. 1000 BCE|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1951.151